Social Problems In Martin Luther King

How does it feel to know that your purpose is rightful, yet be criticized? How should one feel? One is convinced of one’s purpose for doing something for the general good, yet, instead of receiving support from those who are closest to one, one receives rejection, criticism, and judgmental responses that change the spectator’s opinion negatively towards, whatever it is that one is rightfully doing. This is a social problem that has become a trend throughout time. When members of society see that one breaks away from a comfort zone of social decorum in order to make great changes that are relatively as great as the person itself, they concentrate their energy on their utmost abilities to bring down that hero; if they can not be great, then anyone …show more content…
This is the situation that Martin Luther King experienced during the time of racism and Jim Crow views towards people of color. While fighting to lift the curse of Jim Crow laws in the United States, as the world looked at it, King was incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for his Civil Rights movement, which was considered extreme for its great social and political changes that were evidently salient from the beginning of the peaceful protest. In “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King addresses and rebuts the contradicting social views towards his movement by showing his despair of the current shameful events while also expressing his faith in a brighter future through many rhetorical