Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King :: Jesse Jackson Martin Luther King

Jesse capital of Mississippi and Martin Luther male monarch It is early months of 1963 in the southern metropolis of Birmingham Alabama. A city that lies in civil unrest and bitterly divided. A city to which African Americans march, hold protests and sit-ins in an effort to gain equal rights. They be met with brutal opposition in the form of police officers, attack dogs and pissing hoses. During this time of utter chaos two separate civil rights leading speak out on their beliefs. Reverend Jesse capital of Mississippi and Martin Luther poove twain speak on the issues of violence, the media and the will of the Negro people as a whole in a effort to win support for the African American Community. I saw the system naked. I saw it without pose. I saw it face to face for totally of its brutality and its ugliness, and the depth of its spite I made a commitment to fight for the rest of my life. (capital of Mississippi 344) Jesse Jackson saw fighting as the only way they would li sten (Jackson 2). force play was something that Jackson tangle came with the territory. For the people that were there to stop the marchers as Jackson felt could not have cared less for the lives of the African American marchers (Jackson 2). Martin Luther King on the other hand felt rather differently on the subject of violence. King felt that it was defile to fight back for it was wrong(p) to use immoral acts to attain moral ends (King 9) King felt that the opposition, those difficult to oppress the black man were evil in their manner. He felt that by allowing his protestors to fight back against the dogs, water hoses and police officers he was allowing them to patronize to their level of ignorance something that he did not want to collide with happen (King 8). King felt that there was no greater treason than to do the wrong deed for the right reason (King 8) The media is a point on to which both(prenominal) Jackson and King agree on. Jackson seemed to put it best in the l ines You see the media has more power than the politicians who make laws, or the bankers who make property or the police who carry weapons. Because the media has the appraisal power and it determines the worth of things. Jackson also felt that the media was important because it embarrassed white people to see the beating of a black man to the point of unconsciousness all because he was trying to obtain a seat at a white restaurant (Jackson 333).