A Letter From Birmingham Jail An Outsider in the US
Martin Luther King Jr.'s essay, A Letter From Birmingham Jail has become a classic for good reason. Martin Luther King was an excellent writer and speaker, appealing not only to the logical side of most people, but also to their emotional side. He was an intelligent man, keeping up with all the current events of not only the nation but the world, and was well read in issues of the past. What he said and wrote came from deep inside him and was influenced by his belief in God and Jesus Christ. His essay took his knowledge and his talents of persuasion, and summed up what he was working for and what he believed in. When he stated, "Anyone who lives inside the U.S. can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds..." he was saying that Americans are people made up of many cultures and backgrounds. He was celebrating America's diversity, which makes the United States such a wonderful place to live. He would be ashamed and sorrowful if he saw how citizens of The United States treated each other today. If we had to take a million immigrants in, say, Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate?
G. Gordon Liddy, the Watergate showman-convict and host of the nation's second most widely heard radio talk show, told his listeners that if federal agents invade their homes, they should shoot at their heads because of the agents' protective vests....he reconsidered. The head is too hard to hit. 'So you shoot twice to the body...center of mass. And if that does not work, then shoot to the groin area.' Martin Luther King Jr's goals of equality among all people has been met, to some extent. There is still hatred held by some, and fear, which fuels hatred, by others. When King spoke those words, "Anyone who lives inside the U.S. can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds," he knew nothing about people like Buchanan and Liddy, the OCA or the Crips. What we need today is a modern day King, one who can unite us all and make sure that there really are no outsiders within the U.S. on many subjects, immigration is one of them. Buchanan believes that there should be a 200 mile fence built along the U.S. Mexican border, and that Congress should pass a five-year moratorium on legal immigration. He also feels that an Executive Order should be signed which would abolish federally mandated minority programs and affirmative-action plans, plans that were put in place during the Civil Rights Movement which King helped to lead. Buchanan is the same man who stated that women were "simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed." Yet, if he becomes President he will re-instate prayer and Bible study classes because he believes that family values and morals are non-existent in American society today. Is this guy for real? What happened to equality? How can someone be religious and still go around declaring that some people are better then others? Supposedly our country was to have gotten rid of all its racists notions during the 60's and the 70's. Apparently not. Buchanan is creating outsiders within the U.S.
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Approximate Word count = 1499
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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