Lu, Siye: Diversity

After reading A Call for Unity and Letter from a Birmingham Jail, I realized that Black people did struggle a lot to secure their rights.
      
Martin Luther King, Jr and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference led a series of demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, which caused King to be arrested. After, eight local White clergymen wrote A Call for Unity and the letter was published in a local newspaper. As a response, King wrote the Letter from a Birmingham Jail to illustrate his original intention and his expectations for the Civil Rights Movement.
      
In my opinion, everyone is equal and should be treated equally. Black people did contribute to this society a lot and helped to develop this country. So they should be treated fairly. People should respect their work instead of hating them. Moreover, people should not just use others and not give them the respect they deserve. People who help the development of our society are worthy of our respect.
     
On the other hand, it is wrong to judge a book by it's cover. Maybe one Black person did something wrong, but that does not mean that all Black people are bad. Furthermore, who can say that one will never do anything wrong ever? This is the problem, people are always more tolerant to themselves, and are stricter to others, especially to Black people.
     
Also, look at how African Americans came to the United States. Because of the slave trade millions of Black people were taken from their homes and then brought over here to work. They were victims and many died during the passage.
     
I admire Martin Luther King, he was so brave to struggle for the rights for Black people under such adverse conditions.