“When you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering
as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can’t go to the
public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see the
tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to
colored children, and see the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in
her little mental sky, and see her begin to distort her little personality by
unconsciously developing a bitterness toward white people;” (Letter from
Birmingham City Jail).
How do the children live in this time?
How is the school systems and are they given a fair
education?
The text shows a sense of exhaustion. Shows how sad the
people and Martin Luther King are to explain to their children what they can
and cannot do because of the rights they do and do not have. It is not fair
that the unfairness does not only affect the adults (parents) but it affects
the children so much as well. White children are raised to hate black children
and it is not right. The text describes how Martin Luther King’s daughter’s
whole world got cloudy when she was told she could not go to Funtown because of
her race. It really depicts how the children’s atmosphere changes when they
feel they are being mistreated and they are so innocent. The quotation also
shows how one little thing could spark up hatred in the heart of the children
to begin to hate a human race.
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