HONORS 201H Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau, The White People
3 Sep 2016
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There was an agreement to settle racial matters in court, and uphold any decisions made, but that didn"t please everybody. Even though there had been improvements in facing facts and taking on the racial problems, black people were still holding demonstrations. The signers of the paper urge white and black people to negotiate, and for the demonstrations to stop. A court appearance could fix these issues, according to the address. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere . Mlk is in jail because he couldn"t sit by and watch nothing get done, and his actions put him there. Demonstrations aren"t god, but white supremacy is even worse, and the conditions in birmingham made the demonstrations a necessity in order to make change. Negotiations have failed, the courts were no help, and bombings and racial crimes keep occurring. The call for unity seemed to have done nothing.
