Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

In 1963 fifty- three blacks led by Martin Luther King Jr. marched into downtown Birmingahm to protest the segregation laws. All were arrested. This caused the clergymen of the southern town to write a letter appealing to the black population to stop their demonstrations. The letter appeared in the Birmingaham newspaper. In response Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter that provided inspiration to racial equality. Kings letter explained that the actions of the African American people were overdue and very well planned

he explained that their mission was to force the white politicians to negotiate and actually heed the requests for desegregation. In the letter king writes "past promises have been broken by the politicians and merchants of Birmingham and now is the time to fulfill the natural right of all to be treated equal." King didn't want violence, but he did want unjust laws to change. King wrote in an un offensive way that a law that is not morally sound is not a law at all. Many unjust laws were changed after kings death to bring the united states closer to kings dream which individuals are judged by their character and talents rather then by their race. That does not mean that the law is just to all. The law is not law to minorities by that I mean the poor and every race except the white. The law extends the law to those who are rich, powerful, and famous.

Racism still exist today and it is been committed

by those who are in charge of the law the cops. In "The Ballad of Hooty Croy" David Talbolt writes about a racist unjust chase on July 16, 1978 done by the yreka police department. The incident involving three young Indians which had been smoking weed and drinking liquor Hooty Croy, Croy's sister Norma Jean, and Croy's cousin Darrel Jones. The chasement began after Croy and his civilings bought liquor at a yreka liquor store. As explained by Talbolt the cops began to chase them for no reason. Jones drove heading to his grandmother's house and shot the cops. The cops then raged by Jones actions started shooting at them. Croy and his civilings then decided to jump out the car and run for their life's. Jean is then shot in the back, and Jones in the groin, Croy kept running and then shot the cop which killed him. Croy then surrendered and turned him self in after being shot. Croy was convicted of first degree murder and his civilings were found of less degrees of murder. On November 30, 1989 a legendary defense attorney J. Tony Serra was sympathize by Croy's case and decided to represent Croy. Serras story about the incident was different from the one that had been known. Serra's story was that yreka had a long history of racism against Indians and that the whole incident that night was caused by the white cops being racist and just chased croy and his civilings for no apparent reason. Serra's story made sense to the jury and decided that Croy was not guilty and was led free. I had a similar experience to Croy's incident. It happened this year it was night time around 8:00 pm when I was driving to go pick my brother up from work in the city of Redondo Beach. As I was driving I noticed a police car it got behind and followed me for three blocks and for no reason he turns siren lights at me so I pulled over. I was very nervous because I had never been pulled over by the police. I seen the police officer coming my way so I rolled my window down. The officer then asked me " do you know why I pulled you over" and I said "no I don't" I then asked him if I did anything wrong he then tell me that I didn't do anything wrong that he ran my plates and he noticed that I didn't belong in Redondo Beach that I belonged in South Central. When he said that I was shocked and scared I didn't say a word. He then asked me if he could see my driver license and I said yes I handed my driver license to him and he said " yeah I was right you do belong in south central" He then drops my driver license and tells me to get off of my car and pick it up and I did it. When I got back inside my car he told me that he never told me to get back inside the car. He then asked to see my registration so I gave it to him he checked the registration papers and handed them back to me. He then tells me o.k. you can go know but I don't want to see you around Redondo Beach so get out of here he then laughs and says "Mexican's do not belong