MLK vs Coates

In Martin Luther King Jr. speech, he talks about how violence is not the answer to fix any social movement. He says in order to stand up for something you must be pure and have not done anything wrong. He talks about how we should try to cooperate with the government. He was in Birmingham city Jail because he believed that there’s injustice in there. He was there people in order to protest he had to have a license and they refused him that people he was black. He also talks about that in any nonviolent campaign there’s four basic steps. Those four steps are collections of facts, negotiation, self purification, and direct actions.

Coates on the other hand also talks about how it is okay to if violate breaks out during a social movement because it out of anyone’s control. It wasn’t planned though he also believes non violent protesting is the way to go, but he also understands violence might happen. He just believes that it’s okay to have violence in a movement if needed to be. He’s angry and believes people doesn’t have to be pure in order to stand up for something. He understands violence might break out even if the protest is supposing to be a non violence protest. There’s no cause or anyone’s fault. It just happens and it was out of anyone’s control. He’s saying that non of the rioting or violence means it’s correct or wise… It just happened and beyond anyone’s control.