Martin Luther King Beyond Vietnam Analysis

Vietnam and Afghanistan In 1967, Martin Luther King gave a speech called “Beyond Vietnam – A Time to Break Silence” at Riverside Church in New York City. King’s purpose was to vocalize the corruption of the Vietnam War and its negative impact on the creation of social justice in the United States. He examined the United States of America’s effort in the war and reasons and repercussions of being there. King denounced the war as something that would poison America’s soul and would lead to the its ultimate demise. He called for “radical revolution of values,” meaning America must stop encouraging a culture of avarice over a culture of humanitarianism (King, 1967). The culture of greed over humanitarianism occurs when America puts profits of consumerism above moral principles or domestic concerns like moral virtue, …show more content…
Also, America had intentions on stealing Vietnam’s oil as Spingola says in the "The Power Elite Playbook, Viet Nam - Plundered Part 9”:
“Rockefeller agent, Kissinger, purportedly orchestrated Watergate, a distracting media circus that ultimately benefited Kissinger, Ford and Rockefeller…[so] Mobil Oil and Pecten [could] begin exploration drilling in 1975 in the Nam Con Son and Cuu Long basins and ...[find] the largest oil field in the South China Sea. Nam Con Son is said to contain 20% of Viet Nam 's oil resources and Cuu Long is said to contain 30% of Viet Nam 's total hydrocarbon resource.”
Therefore, the main purpose of the Vietnam War was to demonstrate how power and money could give a nation control over another. America is a control-freak that has no problem sacrificing its own citizens’ lives and another nation’s citizens’ lives in the name of demonstrating its control and the opposing nation’s vulnerability and weakness or lack of money, which implies that America values money over human