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This indicated that they had no real power to influence any of the changes being enforced by the federal government. This would damage Johnson’s civil rights effort because it implies that he had chosen the people on the basis of their skin colour rather than ‘for their competence, wisdom and courage’ as he had claimed. This would have had a negative impact on his civil rights effort as it meant that these high profile appointments were only surface gains as they did not influence or improve the lives of the majority of black Americans who earned an income of less than half of that of white Americans. This would also undermine Johnson claims that the appointments of these black Americans to major posts would give the young black children a sense of hope as it would demonstrate to them that there was no barrier to their success. This is because even though the intention was there, the fact these appointments had made no difference to their lives meant that there would still be economic problems and other issues related to poverty which may have limited their

“Was not… Was not… Was not… And… And… And… Will we be… Will we be…” Allusions: Multiple important Christian figures such as Jesus, Martin Luther, and John Bunyan are referenced. All of these strategies are used in order to draw more attention towards King’s

Costly discusses how Congress created the Freedman’s Bureau that tried to help to make sure former slaves were being treated and paid well by their employers. Costly also discusses the South Carolina Black Code and how it only applied to “persons of color”; the codes included labor contracts, civil rights, vagrancy, and other restrictions. Andrew Costly tells about the how the northern protesting the Black Codes because they felt as if

Slave codes began in 1705 to validate the treatment of black slaves and to divide and conquer. Black codes came into the picture after the civil war. Black codes were mainly used to put black people into a position as similar to slavery as possible. Later, Jim Crow laws came into America. They were used as a way to continue oppressing and separating black people.

The device which Steyn uses to gleefully flay African American cultural leadership is irony. Black leaders, he maintains, "... have a far greater interest in maintaining racism than any humdrum Ku Klux Klan kleagle", as it gives them the edge they need to maintain their power. He demonstrates how laughable it is that their incompetence goes unpunished simply because they are of that racial group, despite their failures to protect their community like "Mayor Culpa whose Emergency Management Plan consisted of finding the nearest TV camera and pointing fingers at everybody else. He mocks how the same people who claim to be fighting against racism, while anyone who dares to have " the impertinence to wander off the Democrat victim-culture plantation, he 's been damned as merely this season 's "black conservative"; a black man who 's no longer authentically black". The effect of this is that the moral high ground, built on a faulty principle of victimization, from under their feet.

King’s uses pronouns consciously in his letter to both distance himself from his critics and include himself with the rest of America. King addresses his main critics, law enforcement across America, by writing “they have used the moral means of nonviolence to maintain the immoral end of flagrant racial injustice” (King 3). King describes how the police are immoral in there protection of segregation. King also uses the pronoun ‘they’ to distance himself from his critics. By dissociating himself from the police, King implies he is moral rather than immoral, convincing King’s audience protest is justified against immoral people and social equality is moral rather than immoral.

I 'm not here to try and change your religion. I 'm not here to argue or discuss anything that we differ about, because it 's time for us to submerge our differences and realize that it is best for us to first see that we have the same problem, a common problem, a problem that will make you catch hell whether you 're a Baptist, or a Methodist, or a Muslim, or a nationalist” This reflects an ethos appeal because it shows Malcolm is dedicated to making a change, despite his religion. He also expresses a pathological appeal to portray the actions of the white men against he Black society and to describe what will happen if they don’t use force or an violent approach soon. “If

Equality among races was troublesome at this point in history, and speaking about equality between the white and the black was not an easy task. The black man was not the white man equal. Circumstances such color, moral, and intellectual endowments were among the dissimilarities between them. The idea of the white man supremacy was part of the popular predicament; thus, the government was made for the benefit and posterity of the white man. Abraham Lincoln declared that he has no purpose to introduce political and social equality between races; in fact, he was in favor of the race that he belongs.

Malcolm X would hold the complete opposite in views saying “Any time a shepherd, a pastor, teaches you and me not to run from the white man, and, at the same time, teaches us not to fight the white man, he’s a traitor to you and me” (Epps, 67). While these two viewpoints are vastly contradictive in their core beliefs alone, the feelings of these two men were emulated throughout the country. King Jr. believed that the only way to win was to show the country that any African American was just like any other White man or minority that lived here. Malcolm X sought to keep the segregation that was already intact and to instead build up the African American community through keeping to themselves and keeping out of the hatred and bigotry of the country. He believed that if people attacked his race then his race had the right to defend themselves.

African American majority in the Southern States even after the emancipation proclamation still encounter segregation, oppression, disenfranchisement and racial violence. (National Park Service) The “separate but equal” doctrine was the foundation for discrimination which shines light on the dilemma of the African American people. With white ultimatum to dominate society using their unsupported white supremacist belief to intimidate and dissuade African American from their rights civil rights activists had to take the necessary step to protect the black American

Civil Disobedience and Criminal Behavior In the “Letter To Birmingham” by: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr addresses the ongoing oppression of black people in the South during the 1960s, urging a change for society that everyone is equal under the law, and explaining the critical situation of Birmingham, Alabama. This letter is effective and powerful in its own way because it challenged the laws either just or unjust by state or federal governments which were being enforced and followed for centuries. But when Dr. King challenged those laws by using civil disobedience and voicing his disapproval it opened a door for societies to reconsider their purposes not by morals or virtues, but by simply asking this is it fair or even just? For a group of people

Christian beliefs are based on the inspired word of God through the Bible and through God’s revelation to his believers. We use these sources of information, apply a philosophical mindset and create our Christian worldview. Therefore, we are not asking the non-believer to accept our philosophy as truth by exposing them to blind faith. Instead we are showing them reasonable faith because God has shown himself faithful to reveal truth. Is it not true, that the lost, even without realizing it, are searching for the true meaning of life?