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My grandfather was a white male police captain during the civil rights troubles in Birmingham, AL. He also gave King the notebook he would use to write Letter f
by drunkenmonkey 9y ago
My grandfather was a white male police captain during the civil rights troubles in Birmingham, AL. He also gave King the notebook he would use to write Letter from the Birmingham Jail. His quiet support of King literally enabled King's actions in more ways than I can relate.
To divide a people based on skin color is wrong. King, and my grandfather, were not lovers of one skin color over another; they were lovers of respect. It is respect that will break the chains anywhere they are found.
- ebola1717 9y agoDid you just try to say that MLK and his jailer did the same amount of good for Civil Rights????
- cup 9y ago>His quiet support of King literally enabled King's actions in more ways than I can relate. He genuinely just said a policemans actions during the Civil Rights era enabled MLK. You can't make this up. And then to talk about respect in the context of race, when black people are routinely disrespected by individuals, institutions and the state in America.
- david38 9y agoShow me where it says "same".
- thethrowawayboy 9y ago"Begun on the margins of the newspaper in which the statement appeared while I was in jail, the letter was continued on scraps of writing paper supplied by a friendly black trusty, and concluded on a pad my attorneys were eventually permitted to leave me." --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "Why We Can't Wait" Either you or your grandfather are outright lying, unless your grandfather literally handed Dr. King the notepad his attorneys brought him and told the story as him "giving Dr. King a notepad", which is merely a lie by omission.