Yes, there are definitely situations in today’s society where moments of segregation resurface. Police Brutality is still a recent and continuous issue that affects oppressed groups, and unfortunately it has not become less violent. There has also been the discussion of cultural appropriation, where a country’s culture will be criticized by a person (usually one of privilege) and then used as a form of mockery, not corresponding with that culture’s actual symbolism. A minority will display his/her culture and be targeted inappropriately whereas a privileged person appropriates a culture, with it being seen as a new trend in today’s society.
I think that Martin Luther King meant that if you continuously keep putting off justice for a long time,
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Martin Luther King does not want his movement to conform to the stereotypes that black people only know how to be hotheaded and temperamental, angry. He asks himself and his followers if they will continue to protest against the injustice of segregation without retaliation even if it is brought upon them first.
Socrates broke ancient society’s beliefs of religion and introduced a new way of thinking involving philosophy and questioning God. He created tension in the mind so that people didn’t have to look at life through a series of myths and half-truths. But in the eyes of society, he was seen as practicing civil disobedience. This is similar to Martin Luther King’s movement, trying to show the privileged that oppressive behaviour, racism, and prejudice is not acceptable and will no longer be tolerated, thus creating tension. They both tried to show a group of people how the other ways life
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The race, colour or gender of a person should not be a reason to be in humane towards them or that the oppressed should be blamed for something they can’t change, being who they are, like if you were to blame a person with money for being robbed.
Privileged people have not experience the level of oppression that minority groups have experience for centuries, and could never truly imagine what life is like in their shoes. Privileged people would rather live in an unjust society without tension, than a just society with tension because it benefits them. “Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
Martin Luther King twists the negative meaning of extremism to mean that he is an extremist for love and justice, comparing himself to Jesus, that yes, he is an extremist for the right reasons.
A good way to release these emotions would be to peacefully speak their mind or else these emotions would come out in bursts of violence. If instead of being allowed to speak, the forced silenced will soon be ripped off with screams. These restraints have been seen as ineffective in previous history. Thus it is much more civil to negotiate peacefully and listen to both sides, than to ignore one and tell it to