Racism In The Rhetorical Analysis Of Martin Luther King

In the world we live in today, there are a lot of issues that people feel the need to address. One of these things that has never seemed to leave, even to this day, and likely never will even year down the line, is racism. Martin Luther King are., the man of equality and peace for both black and white, colored or pale, young or old, was once imprisoned for his peaceful protesting at the Birmingham jail. While he was imprisoned, he wrote a letter to his fellow clergymen speaking calmly about his imprisonment and why he was doing what he was, in hopes of having others see things his way. I was tasked with analyzing his words and seeing if they were indeed words spoken within rhetoric. As stated before, racism has existed for a rather long time, …show more content…
This, rings all too well with me. Being a colored girl adopted into a white family, living and moving from one small town to another, I have been confronted with racism with every breathe, step, and move I make. I may not experience the same level as people had a long time ago, but I do understand and relate to the pain and frustration many people feel. I however feel that many of my colored brother and sisters, answer this feeling and issue in a very wrong matter. I have also, more times than I can count, seen my brothers and sisters of color, treat EACHOTHER, far worse than they are being treated. This always confused me, why treat each other so poorly? Why not just speak up and out peacefully as Martin once tried and somewhat succeeded in doing. He knew what constraints were against him and he also knew what his exigence was, he knew that speaking up would pose a large risk to him and yet, bravely and calmly, he spoke up anyways, giving power and a voice to those who were far too scared to speak up for