If you were to ask one person to recall an event from exactly how they remembered it, then asked another person to do the same thing from the same event, do you think their stories would line up perfectly symmetrical? No, probably not, because each person has their own perspective and interpretations of what really happened, and their minds will not focus on the same things. This is what happened in my reviewing of two different editorials, based on one speech. People take away different things from the speech that I chose, “I Have A Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr., because they hear what they want to hear, and see what they want to see. For instance, how I view the speech is different. On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. gave a
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Looking for negative views from recent years on the “I Have A Dream” speech was trying, but people back in 1963 were not all for King’s speech. Since I could not find an actual editorial from the 60’s, I chose this article titled “Back In The Day: What Critics Had To Say About King’s Speech In 1963”, on MSNBC by Morgan Whitaker. This editorial happens to be pushing in the negative direction, with Democrats saying that “African-American’s should be happy with what they had, rather than asking for more.” The bias in this editorial would be based on the more intense racism at the time, with people not being as open-minded about people of all different colors. A quote that exemplifies this is a response on the speech from the Senator of Louisiana, Russell Long, saying “You see a lot of white folks out there in that demonstration. If they want to mix with that mob, that’s fine. If somebody wants to be left alone by those people, I think he’s entitled to be left alone too.” While the writer of this seemed neutral on the speech, it shows that people did not always feel as positively towards the speech as they do now. From reading both editorials, I would have to say that the first editorial is better suited to really present what King’s ideas were really about to I believe the first secondary source was
Looking for negative views from recent years on the “I Have A Dream” speech was trying, but people back in 1963 were not all for King’s speech. Since I could not find an actual editorial from the 60’s, I chose this article titled “Back In The Day: What Critics Had To Say About King’s Speech In 1963”, on MSNBC by Morgan Whitaker. This editorial happens to be pushing in the negative direction, with Democrats saying that “African-American’s should be happy with what they had, rather than asking for more.” The bias in this editorial would be based on the more intense racism at the time, with people not being as open-minded about people of all different colors. A quote that exemplifies this is a response on the speech from the Senator of Louisiana, Russell Long, saying “You see a lot of white folks out there in that demonstration. If they want to mix with that mob, that’s fine. If somebody wants to be left alone by those people, I think he’s entitled to be left alone too.” While the writer of this seemed neutral on the speech, it shows that people did not always feel as positively towards the speech as they do now. From reading both editorials, I would have to say that the first editorial is better suited to really present what King’s ideas were really about to I believe the first secondary source was