Letter From Birmingham Jail

Wow! That was one long letter! But it was also made a whole lot of sense. He used good examples to explain his ideas and how they fit into the clergymen’s views. Their ideas were really the same just came out into the open in different ways. I like his writing because it is strong and spirited. He does not use big words or vocabulary that no one understands. He also uses a lot of religious notations; this helps us fit the situations of the time to the situations of the past. We can then see how they are repeating themselves. Martin Luther King, Jr. goes on to say that the churches are not really following their teachings. They seem to be more concerned with social issues. He asked the clergymen and us for that matter, to step up to the plate and show everyone that the time for racism and segregation to end is now. These ideas are still troubling our society today and we all need to read this passage and realize that we can’t change the past but we can’t build a better tomorrow unless we fix today.