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In 1963 fifty- three blacks led by Martin Luther King Jr. marched into downtown Birmingahm to protest the segregation laws. All were arrested. This caused the clergymen of the southern town to write a letter appealing to the black population to stop their demonstrations. The letter appeared in the Birmingaham newspaper. In response Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter that provided inspiration to racial equality. Kings letter explained that the actions of the African American people were overdue and very well planned
he explained that their mission was to force the white politicians to negotiate and actually heed the requests for desegregation. In the letter king writes "past promises have been broken by the politicians and merchants of Birmingham and now is the time to fulfill the natural right of all to be treated equal." King didn't want violence, but he did want unjust laws to change. King wrote in an un offensive way that a law that is not morally sound is not a law at all. Many unjust laws were changed after kings death to bring the united states closer to kings dream which individuals are judged by their character and talents rather then by their race. That does not mean that the law is just to all. The law is not law to minorities by that I mean the poor and every race except the white. The law extends the law to those who are rich, powerful, and famous.
Racism still exist today and it is been committed
by those who are in charge of the law the cops. In "The Ballad of Hooty Croy" David Talbolt writes about a racist unjust chase on July 16, 1978 done by the yreka police department. The incident involving three young Indians which had been smoking weed and drinking liquor Hooty Croy, Croy's sister Norma Jean, and Croy's cousin Darrel Jones. The chasement began after Croy and his civilings bought liquor at a yreka liquor store. As explained by Talbolt the cops began to chase them for no reason. Jones drove heading to his grandmother's house and shot the...