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Read the excerpts from Dr. King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and answer the question.
[7] I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and that when they fail to do this they become dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress … we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured as long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.
[8] We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy, and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.
Read the excerpts from Dr. King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and answer the question. Thoroughly explain how dr king develops the claim that racial injustices must be uncovered to be healed.
Answer:
He shows that if people do not naturalize the dialogue about racism and its consequences, it will be impossible to combat it.
Explanation:
King develops the claim that racial injustices must be discovered to be cured, through statements that show that if the theme "racism" and the debate about inequalities created by him is rejected and discouraged within society, racism will never be seen as a problem. If there is no naturalization of the debate on racism, it will be covered up, and it is not possible to fight what is hidden. On the contrary, the lack of debate will strengthen racism, n will empower people to fight against it and make racism and its consequences worse than ever. To reinforce this, King affirms: Like a boil that can never be cured while it is covered, but it must be opened with all its ugliness that flows I put to the natural remedies of air and light. "
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Dr. King develops the claim that racial injustices must be uncovered to be healed by trying to explain that the protesters are not in the wrong. Dr. King says "I had hoped... that is already alive" by saying this king is trying to get his point across that he and the people he is protesting with are not the ones in the wrong, they are only exposing racial injustices that millions of people have just swept under the rug .The sentence "Like a boil... before it can be cured" really helps to further his claim by using personification to compare racial injustices to a boil in a grotesque way, which in turn shows the nastiness of the racial injustices . It goes into detail on just how nasty people of color are being treated by using personification to compare the situations of African Americans to the ugliness of a pus-flowing boil.