The intended audience of “Letter From Birmingham Jail” is the clergyman and a bigger group of people. At the beginning of the letter, Dr. King stated that “My Dear Fellow
Clergymen” and “ I came across your recent statement calling my present activities unwise and untimely.” Dr. King’s letter is intended for the Birmingham clergymen who published an open letter criticizing his actions and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Yet, his letter becomes clear that Dr. King intends this statement for a much larger audience. For example, in paragraph twenty-three, Dr. King said, “Over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the
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This is why Dr. King and the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference has to come to Birmingham because they feel connected and responsible for everyone. They need to come and stop a place that was exhibiting “injustice.”
The purpose of “Letter From Birmingham Jail” written by Dr. King is answering the questions from the clergyman and criticizing the white moderate. In the first paragraph, Dr. King said, “ Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas… But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.” Dr. King had never stopped his work to answer people that criticize his action, but this time, he will answer their questions because they are kind people. Next, Dr. King states that “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” He is telling his intended audience that in order to obtain that social justice, the community must take action.
Dr. King also claims he is doing nothing wrong by protesting peacefully, and he wants to …show more content…
and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told Truong 4 that Funtown is closed to colored children…” Dr. King, who is a father, used his personal incident to put reader into an emotional roller coaster. It was a tough situation for him to see his kid cry even though child is considered a child no matter what color or race. In the same paragraph, Dr. King also mentions that “Hate-filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brother and sisters and vast majority of twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty.” This time, he put himself at a part of people who got tortured by the white police, and he explained how cruel punishment and behaviors his people received.
According to Essayjudge, In public many white police officers would use non-violent force to arrest Negros but that was only for the public’s sake because behind bars the police officers would curse, kick, and even kill Negro’s whether you were a child, a women, or a man it did not matter. It is so hard for me to imagine how our society like that, and tt is also heartbreaking when our society treated colored people so badly back
Clergymen” and “ I came across your recent statement calling my present activities unwise and untimely.” Dr. King’s letter is intended for the Birmingham clergymen who published an open letter criticizing his actions and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Yet, his letter becomes clear that Dr. King intends this statement for a much larger audience. For example, in paragraph twenty-three, Dr. King said, “Over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the
Negro's great stumbling …show more content…
This is why Dr. King and the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference has to come to Birmingham because they feel connected and responsible for everyone. They need to come and stop a place that was exhibiting “injustice.”
The purpose of “Letter From Birmingham Jail” written by Dr. King is answering the questions from the clergyman and criticizing the white moderate. In the first paragraph, Dr. King said, “ Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas… But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.” Dr. King had never stopped his work to answer people that criticize his action, but this time, he will answer their questions because they are kind people. Next, Dr. King states that “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” He is telling his intended audience that in order to obtain that social justice, the community must take action.
Dr. King also claims he is doing nothing wrong by protesting peacefully, and he wants to …show more content…
and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told Truong 4 that Funtown is closed to colored children…” Dr. King, who is a father, used his personal incident to put reader into an emotional roller coaster. It was a tough situation for him to see his kid cry even though child is considered a child no matter what color or race. In the same paragraph, Dr. King also mentions that “Hate-filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brother and sisters and vast majority of twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty.” This time, he put himself at a part of people who got tortured by the white police, and he explained how cruel punishment and behaviors his people received.
According to Essayjudge, In public many white police officers would use non-violent force to arrest Negros but that was only for the public’s sake because behind bars the police officers would curse, kick, and even kill Negro’s whether you were a child, a women, or a man it did not matter. It is so hard for me to imagine how our society like that, and tt is also heartbreaking when our society treated colored people so badly back