2. Is racism no longer a relevant today? Is MLK’s letter no longer important? Do
some people still make the same arguments about various race issues today that
the white clergymen made back in the early 1960's?
3. What might Didion say about King. See excerpts below to prompt your
response:
King: I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him
is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to
arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality
expressing the highest respect for law. (147)
Didion: I do not have the right, even if I had the power, to inflict that
unreasonable conscience upon you; nor do I want you to inflict your conscience,
however, reasonable, however enlightened, upon me.... The ethic of conscience is
intrinsically insidious. (182)
Didion: We have no way of knowing–beyond that fundamental loyalty to the social
code–what is "right" and what is "wrong," what is "good" and what "evil." (182)
