“The Flower for the Graves” and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Eulogy for the Martyred Children” portray the same message; racism has gone too far. During the times of racial havoc, four girls were brutally murdered by “some brutal fool who didn’t know any better” (Patterson). The man who killed these innocent girls was influenced by the public ideas that black people were inferior to the rest of society and thought he did a righteous act. Yet, “the bombing proved to be a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement” (Jackson). This caused people in Birmingham to see the savagery of racism which caused them to create a revolution of peace and equality. To create the revolution of equality, the authors compared the different viewpoints of the different races by using the words we versus they, and their beliefs of hope for the future.
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Patterson, a white journalist, used the word we as in everyone, to show that it is everyone’s fault for the terrible deed of killing an innocent black girl. King, a black preacher, did not point fingers at anyone in particular, but used the word they as a way to show what the girl’s deaths stand for. King was hoping that the girl’s deaths will “lead [the] Southland from the low road of man’s inhumanity to… [a] high road of peace and brotherhood.” King uses the word they repeatedly to state they have something to say to every bad aspect of the South that we, according to Patterson, have created. Patterson credits everything that happened to not one lone race, but every person in the South who did not do enough to stop the current situation from happening. But, at the end of the day, it is known what the real cause of the problem was, and that is why “we of the white South…must take the harsher judgment”
Patterson, a white journalist, used the word we as in everyone, to show that it is everyone’s fault for the terrible deed of killing an innocent black girl. King, a black preacher, did not point fingers at anyone in particular, but used the word they as a way to show what the girl’s deaths stand for. King was hoping that the girl’s deaths will “lead [the] Southland from the low road of man’s inhumanity to… [a] high road of peace and brotherhood.” King uses the word they repeatedly to state they have something to say to every bad aspect of the South that we, according to Patterson, have created. Patterson credits everything that happened to not one lone race, but every person in the South who did not do enough to stop the current situation from happening. But, at the end of the day, it is known what the real cause of the problem was, and that is why “we of the white South…must take the harsher judgment”