But when you have seenvicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim
All of the different examples in this paragraph of violent and non violent racism really emphasize the horrible things that he was fighting against.
I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign thatwas “well timed” in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation
There is never a good time to fight for change, sometimes you just have to do it. This feels like one of the points that Martin Luther King wants to get across.
“Why didn’t you give the new city administration time toact?” The only answer that I can give to this query is that the new Birmingham administration mustbe prodded about as much as the outgoing one, before it will act. We are sadly mistaken if we feelthat the election of Albert Boutwell as mayor will bring the millennium to Birmingham. While Mr.Boutwell is a much more gentle person than Mr. Connor, they are both segregationists, dedicated tomaintenance of the status quo
Just because someone new is elected doesn't mean that you need to stop pushing for the change that you want, even if that new persons is less strict than the previous person regarding the things you want to change.
create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice andracism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood
The way he uses tension to create change is so interesting.
Knowing that a strong economic with with-drawal program would be the by-product of direct action, we felt that this would be the best time tobring pressure to bear on the merchants for the needed change
The fact that some people will only care about the rights of others if they begin losing money is so ridiculous to me.
In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whetherinjustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action
I wonder if these steps are constant across other nonviolent campaigns? Are these steps that protesters try to follow or do these steps tend to just happen?
Anyone who lives inside the United States can never beconsidered an outsider anywhere within its bounds
Can be relevant to what is happening today in regards to the immigration debate.
Injustice anywhere is a threat tojustice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment ofdestiny.
we are all connected, and one person being treated unfairly is a threat to everyone else that one day they might be treated like that
How might social annotation fit into your course? For what pur-poses might you begin conversations in the margins of the textsyou read with your class
Because this is an online class I could see social annotation being very helpful for asking questions and learning more since there are not lectures.
What hashtags would you create to summarize the major themes inthis chapter? How would you categorize them?
#Annotations #readlikeawriter #classdiscussion #differentwaystoread
Describe your workflow for reading and annotating this chapter.What worked well? What might you change to be more strategic?
I dug in, reading it on paper carefully, underling stuff as I went, then stated annotating. Printing it out worked well for me, on future assignments I will probably read less of the annotations other people made because I found my self reading all of them and that takes a long time.
prefers using tools that allow herto temporarily hide others’ annotations and highlights for a more focusedfirst reading.
I find the annotations pretty distracting on my first read. so for this assignment I printed it out, read it, underlined a few things I thought were interesting, than I looked at it online with the annotations. But knowing that there are tools on my computer that do this is very helpful!
Do you read the text all the way through andthen read your peers’ comments from top to bottom?
I much prefer to read annotated texts like this, it makes the most sense to my brain. I never even really thought people would do it differently, so its interesting to hear about all the other ways people read.
What other affordances might social annotation tools offer?
social annotation, especially on a computer, can make it easy to hear perspectives form people all over the world. It can also make it easier to go back and look at what you annotated or highlighted. like how the author makes there students use hashtags to summarize texts.
What experiences haveyou had with annotation? How might those experiences prepare you to read incommunity with others?
Like many other people have said I have very little experience annotating in a group outside of the occasional high school class discussion. I have also never been someone to annotate on my own, I get scared that I might mess up a book if I write in it. However I am intrigued by the idea of group annotations, being able to hear so many different perspectives will be fun!