Write 11 pages with APA style on Blacks and the US Constitution. Being raised Christian gave King a moral and forgiving outlook on life, which later showed in his approach to civil rights. Garrow explains King stated:
Write 11 pages with APA style on Blacks and the US Constitution. Being raised Christian gave King a moral and forgiving outlook on life, which later showed in his approach to civil rights. Garrow explains King stated:
We must keep God in the forefront. Let us be Christian in all of our actions. The protesters must not hate their white opponents, but be guided by Christian love while seeking justice with their demands. Love is one of the pinnacle parts of the Christian faith. There is another side called justice. And justice is really love in calculation. (24)
Baptist believed that Jesus did for every man’s sin. All that man has to do is ask for forgiveness, inviting Jesus into his heart. Once Jesus’s blood-covered a sinner, the sinner became perfect in Christ. If someone is perfect, no matter the color, they are equal. King felt that every sinner could be forgiven, even Ku Klux Klan members or white supremacists. This led him to be forgiving of the white oppressors.
Forgiveness in the Christian religion did not mean acceptance for the Jim Crow laws in place at the time of King’s birth. Jim Crow laws did not abide by national laws. King felt “civil disobedience to local laws is civil obedience to national laws” (Garrow, 92). Although the North won the American Civil War, the South won the battle of Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow laws were laws created to keep white and black separated (Cook, 10). An example would be separate bathrooms, water facets, eating facilities, and even separate places on public transportation. King felt that Jim Crow laws were illegal. Technically he was right. The North won the war, which made federal laws superior to state laws. However, the Southerners did not acknowledge this fact. The reality was the North did not want to deal with civil rights after the American Civil War until activists like King started pressing the issue. King realized that “that our refusal to accept jim crow in specific areas challenges the entire social, political and economic order that .has kept us second class citizens” (Garrow, 85). . .
