Rationale
I have chosen to write a transcribed interview with Martin Luther King Jr. discussing his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. King has been interviewed, in this piece, by Petey Greene. An influential African American radio show host who often talked about the poverty and racism which African Americans had to face in America at that time. I have placed this interview in November 1964, about a month after King had received his Nobel Prize. Moreover, this interview is taking place in Birmingham, Alabama.
In this interview, I have aimed to examine different elements within King’s acceptance speech. And I also aimed to examine his moral standing linked to this speech. I had chosen to discuss King’s Acceptance Speech because it has …show more content…
Certainly not what one would expect from a man who’d just received the Nobel Prize.
Within the first few words of your speech, you recognize violence and death. Things one would not associate with a honor. And in your first sentence, you state that “22 million Negroes of the United States are engaged in a creative battle to the long night of racial injustice.”. That’s quite an image you start off with Dr.King. So I must ask why you started with this sombre tone?
A:What I had to say may not have been pleasing to the ear. But all I did was tell the truth. There is still a fear and anger amongst the American people, that needs to be addressed. So I saw it fit to remind all those listening of the fact that there is still a struggle. And that we must not lay on our laurels.
Q:So, do you believe that believe that the Nobel Prize was misplaced, Dr.King?
A:Well, I did not accept the award on the notion that the Civil Rights Movement was by any means finished. I accepted the award as an acknowledgement to our nonviolent approach. I accepted the award to outline the still underlining importance of our nonviolence. I accepted the award on the acknowledgment that the nonviolent movement was not just sterile passivity. So no, I do not believe that this Honor has been “misplaced” but simply awarded to our
I have chosen to write a transcribed interview with Martin Luther King Jr. discussing his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. King has been interviewed, in this piece, by Petey Greene. An influential African American radio show host who often talked about the poverty and racism which African Americans had to face in America at that time. I have placed this interview in November 1964, about a month after King had received his Nobel Prize. Moreover, this interview is taking place in Birmingham, Alabama.
In this interview, I have aimed to examine different elements within King’s acceptance speech. And I also aimed to examine his moral standing linked to this speech. I had chosen to discuss King’s Acceptance Speech because it has …show more content…
Certainly not what one would expect from a man who’d just received the Nobel Prize.
Within the first few words of your speech, you recognize violence and death. Things one would not associate with a honor. And in your first sentence, you state that “22 million Negroes of the United States are engaged in a creative battle to the long night of racial injustice.”. That’s quite an image you start off with Dr.King. So I must ask why you started with this sombre tone?
A:What I had to say may not have been pleasing to the ear. But all I did was tell the truth. There is still a fear and anger amongst the American people, that needs to be addressed. So I saw it fit to remind all those listening of the fact that there is still a struggle. And that we must not lay on our laurels.
Q:So, do you believe that believe that the Nobel Prize was misplaced, Dr.King?
A:Well, I did not accept the award on the notion that the Civil Rights Movement was by any means finished. I accepted the award as an acknowledgement to our nonviolent approach. I accepted the award to outline the still underlining importance of our nonviolence. I accepted the award on the acknowledgment that the nonviolent movement was not just sterile passivity. So no, I do not believe that this Honor has been “misplaced” but simply awarded to our