Project One : MLK letter analysis

The famous "Letter From Birmingham Jail" (http://www.uscrossier.org/pullias/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/king.pdf) was written by Martin Luther King Jr. while he served time in jail for organizing a march in Birmingham. The letter was written in response to news paper articles written by his white counterparts who believed that MLK's actions were not well planned. The letter includes a lot of issues that are still valid in society today.

The two elements of the letter that I think would be altered in modern times is the target audience of the letter and the type of issues it tried to remedy. The Black community today is faced with problems concerning racism just like the generations before them, but they are different in how intense the racism is and how it is acted upon. Today racism is hidden. To the untrained eye racism seems to have dissipated from this society, but racism and hate crimes occur everyday.

The other element of King's letter that may have been different had it been written today is who it was written to. There is a disconnect amongst the Black community today. King's letter stressed how the Black community was working as a unit to end segregation in the U.S. but in modern times we are severely divided. We divide ourselves by class, skin tone, educational background, and pedigree.