Dr. Martin Luther King was a civil rights activist that used his voice to speak on behalf of what no one else has the courage to do. He helped to advance the African American Community by verbally connecting how the Vietnam War hindered the minorities to advance in society to get where it is today.
King once iterated the line, "A time comes when silence is betrayal." Fully agreeing on that statement, King states that it is a duty, "...a vocation of agony, but we most speak." While King is on a high platform with the intent to use his voice to get minority blacks to stable platform in society, he can also use his voice to speak on behalf of the Vietnam War as a way to radiate patriotism with no harmful intent what so ever. He is an American, born and raises despite color of his skin. Stereotypes suggest because he is black he does not have to right to speak his opinion on certain topics, which is a right most minority black's did not have so white supremacist are speaking down upon a privilege a black person had that majority did not.
Throughout Dr. Kings speech, he never neglected the importance of black people . He states, "We were taking the black young men who has been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem." In …show more content…
The war took away money, people and more and as this factored on, it came to the conclusion that a war happening in another country was more important that gaining equality in the one that needed those society-changing resources the
King once iterated the line, "A time comes when silence is betrayal." Fully agreeing on that statement, King states that it is a duty, "...a vocation of agony, but we most speak." While King is on a high platform with the intent to use his voice to get minority blacks to stable platform in society, he can also use his voice to speak on behalf of the Vietnam War as a way to radiate patriotism with no harmful intent what so ever. He is an American, born and raises despite color of his skin. Stereotypes suggest because he is black he does not have to right to speak his opinion on certain topics, which is a right most minority black's did not have so white supremacist are speaking down upon a privilege a black person had that majority did not.
Throughout Dr. Kings speech, he never neglected the importance of black people . He states, "We were taking the black young men who has been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem." In …show more content…
The war took away money, people and more and as this factored on, it came to the conclusion that a war happening in another country was more important that gaining equality in the one that needed those society-changing resources the