One of the most fundamental elements of knowledge—language. Our words are used to communicate and understand each other and create new meanings. With our words comes names and labels. Both the authors of “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and “She Unnames them” write about the inequality and harm labels can bring. The removal of labels allows us to see past a name that separates one another and brings us closer together. The “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. writes about the injustice that comes with racism and its labels. After being arrested during a peaceful protest in Birmingham, Alabama, King wrote the letter in jail in response to local religious leaders. The councilman commented that the protest and the direct action
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It was normal for the white man to call African Americans slurs and racial remarks as they saw them beneath them. White people made degrading names for black people in order to make them feel inferior to the white man. People use these degrading labels to humiliate and abuse others, simply based on their skin color. “.when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading ‘white’ and ‘colored.’ The signs labeling and segregating everyone have divided America and have left the people no choice but to protest against it. The people of America must see that in order for us to be closer and justice be served, we must see past harmful labels Like Dr. King’s letter, in “She Unnames Them” by Ursula K. Le Guin, Eve writes about how names create a barrier between humans and animals on earth and the equality that can come from removing them. “They seemed far closer than when their names had stood between us and them like a clear barrier.” When we remove the names of things around us, a layer of difference is
It was normal for the white man to call African Americans slurs and racial remarks as they saw them beneath them. White people made degrading names for black people in order to make them feel inferior to the white man. People use these degrading labels to humiliate and abuse others, simply based on their skin color. “.when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading ‘white’ and ‘colored.’ The signs labeling and segregating everyone have divided America and have left the people no choice but to protest against it. The people of America must see that in order for us to be closer and justice be served, we must see past harmful labels Like Dr. King’s letter, in “She Unnames Them” by Ursula K. Le Guin, Eve writes about how names create a barrier between humans and animals on earth and the equality that can come from removing them. “They seemed far closer than when their names had stood between us and them like a clear barrier.” When we remove the names of things around us, a layer of difference is