The White Moderate Quote

King identified as the biggest barrier on the path to an equitable world: Letter from a birmingham jail , 1963 “first, i must confess that over the past few years i have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the white citizen's counciler or the ku klux klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to order than to justice;

Make your own choices and follow through. King was diagnosing the white moderate in his own time, it just so happens the white moderate has not evolved one iota since then. Who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice;

But this same mindset is what allowed for the rise, and almost inevitable candidacy of donald trump.

“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 in this purpose they become the. King was diagnosing the white moderate in his own time, it just so happens the white moderate has not evolved one iota since then. The white moderate mindset says that since black people are no longer getting lynched, then racism must not really exist anymore. “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 in this purpose they become the.