You may have read King's famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail" but how many people have actually read the letter to which King was responding to?
Four days before King wrote his response, a group of clergymen wrote an open letter that was published in the Birmingham newspaper. King's letter is actually written in the margins of the newspaper he read this message in. He was so struck by it that he felt the need to respond in that moment to no one in particular, an inanimate object. In order for us to understand the letter, we need to understand the inspiration and that is this letter. Many have called this a condemnation of King's actions but it is difficult to find the right word since they are, as King will call them, "the white moderates". In truth I was going to dig into this letter and break it down point-by-point but then I realized how futile that would be. Why? Dr. King does it for me and with such brilliance that I could not possibly compete. So we will do our best to break down and flesh out King's response with the same sort of tact, logic, scrutiny and synthesis that King did to the clergy's letter. Take a moment and look it over and leave any feedback in the comments or on my Twitter.
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