In this blog I will
talk about the similarities and differences between Martin Luther King Jr. and
Stokely Carmichael from Stokely Speaks
and Choas or Community. Stokely found
hypocrisy when it came to the white and black community. Stokely is surely
right about how there was a double standard on black people being violent
because it was fine for white people to be brutal during the time. Stokely’s theory of the double standard that was placed
on black people is extremely useful because it sheds light on the difficult
problem of inequality.
Martin Luther King Jr. felt that
Africans-Americans were able to fight for their rights in a nonviolent way such
as marching. Adding to King’s argument I would point out that unlike Stokely,
king felt that even though African-Americans were guilty of being violent, there
were alternate ways in controlling rage and releasing under discipline for the most
effective impact. According to King and Carmichael African-Americans were
categorized as violent unless they remained passive. In marching together,
African Americans solved what lobbying couldn’t do in legislative halls. King gave the police no reason to be hostile or brutal towards him, contrary to people in the ghettos.
This is well written and well structured with a clear point. Its great that your comparison helps myself and others begin to understand a lesser known man (Stokely) by comparing him to a more well known figure (King). One thing you may want to do is ad an example or two. How were whites brutal? And name some of the marches and demonstrations that King organized. Also did Stokely Do anything, or did he just speak on the subject? What did the people in the ghettos do to be deemed violent?
ReplyDeleteAll in all this would be a great start to an essay that I would be interested in reading.