Monday, January 26, 2009
Past Assignments
Some students have not responded to my letter. Please do so. Also, all students have not completed the Letter from the Birmingham Jail assignment or if you'd planned to, the extra credit assignments: the Presidential Inauguration and/or King Day event. Catch up.
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Lauryn Helling
January 09, 2009
English 2013SPR 09
In Martin Luther King Jr.s’ letter from Birmingham jail, he states that the segregation he sees is not okay for the generation he is in or for the youth of his children’s generation. He tells the Clergymen what efforts have been put forth for the segregation to stop and the negotiations that have put on hold for the time being by Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and leaders of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. MLK knows that freedom is never just handed to an individual, that individual must work hard to earn it and twice has hard if you’re colored. For years on end, the black community has only heard one word that still makes them hold on to that thin piece of hope; “Wait!” He expressed how it’s been more than 340 years and the blacks are still waiting for their rights to surface.
MLK wants his children one day to live in a world where the black community can be looked and be seen as nothing different that human beings. There’s no point in fighting this war, if the end result is that segregation will still be in existence.
He writes this humbled letter for many reasons. One being that there is not much to do “other than write long letters” (top, last page), and to let the people know that this segregation is not just for anyone. He means this letter in a completely non-violent way, and does not pose as a threat. MLK just sits there and hopes for the a brighter tomorrow and a better understanding of what his segregation is having on the civilians on the receiving end of it.
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January 09, 2009
English 2013SPR 09
In Martin Luther King Jr.s’ letter from Birmingham jail, he states that the segregation he sees is not okay for the generation he is in or for the youth of his children’s generation. He tells the Clergymen what efforts have been put forth for the segregation to stop and the negotiations that have put on hold for the time being by Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and leaders of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. MLK knows that freedom is never just handed to an individual, that individual must work hard to earn it and twice has hard if you’re colored. For years on end, the black community has only heard one word that still makes them hold on to that thin piece of hope; “Wait!” He expressed how it’s been more than 340 years and the blacks are still waiting for their rights to surface.
MLK wants his children one day to live in a world where the black community can be looked and be seen as nothing different that human beings. There’s no point in fighting this war, if the end result is that segregation will still be in existence.
He writes this humbled letter for many reasons. One being that there is not much to do “other than write long letters” (top, last page), and to let the people know that this segregation is not just for anyone. He means this letter in a completely non-violent way, and does not pose as a threat. MLK just sits there and hopes for the a brighter tomorrow and a better understanding of what his segregation is having on the civilians on the receiving end of it.
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