Is censorship, even of bigoted or incendiary material, an appropriate use of civil disobedience?
First of all, before answering this question, you need a better understanding of what civil disobedience means. Well, civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. To put it in simpler terms, it’s nonviolent resistance.
Ever since the infamous and tragic event that happened in the summer of July 2013, a mixed Hispanic Florida man named George Zimmerman pleaded not guilty of second-degree murder, by the state’s law, of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed seventeen year old African American male; it delivered an unbelievable amount of international
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Gray was sent to a Trauma Center after he fell into a coma, one week later; he passed away due to life threatening spinal cord injuries. On April 21, 2015, pending an investigation of the incident, six Baltimore police officers were temporarily suspended with pay. Bystanders proposed that the officers who were involved in used unnecessary force on Gray’s arrest. As a result to Gray’s death, it has sparked the 2015 Baltimore protests. Because of that, Black Lives Matter, an activist movement campaigns against what it calls police brutality in the United States against African-Americans, begun. Several media organizations have referred to it as "a new civil rights movement." However, several conservative pundits have labeled the movement a "hate group”. As the outcome of Black Lives Matter, premature mortality rate for African Americans rises by 15 …show more content…
Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Malcolm X, strive every single day to for peace and equality to the world. The earth was never created for human beings to despise nor judge another because of the color of their skin. To quote Dr. King “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Rather than violence, chaos and war; protesting and boycott were the African Americans response of wanting peace and freedom toward their ethicality among many others. From Letter from Birmingham City Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr; Dr. King discusses his political beliefs about unjust laws. He determined the difference between ‘just laws” and “unjust laws” as he stated “A just law is a man-made code the squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral