America's Salad: Celebrating Differences and Challenging Injustice

Words are the seeds of growth, production and appeal to the senses. Lettuce and tomatoes are very different, yet mix them together and a salad is created. As a rule, the more items in a salad the better the flavor. America is like a tossed salad, with many cultures adding the flavors. People must embrace the reality we are all different and celebrate our differences. The color of our skin is one of differences, but the color of a person’s skin should have nothing to do with equality among people. When everyone stands together against injustice, then there will be a strong America, divided the country will certainly crumble from within. In paragraphs 31-34 and 40-41, Dr. Martin Luther King , Jr., who was an American Baptist minister, activist,

King had peace being called an extremist, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, but surprisingly he stopped short and didn’t finish the quote (King, "Letter from Birmingham Jail" 388). Perhaps he assumed anyone who read his quote would also know the rest of the quote from the Declaration of Independence, “that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" (388). While King had used Pathos once again in appealing to both the white and black churches, he admitted he expected more support than he received and was disappointed in the white churches and the lack of pastoral support. As a minister, King was a biblical scholar and had learned the art of persuasive speaking using Pathos, Ethos, and Logos which he used throughout “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Since Dr. King was writing to a group of religious leaders, he was smart to use Logos in providing justification for following in the footsteps of the Apostle Paul when Paul wrote his concerns to the churches, as Dr. King also writes of his concerns of the unjust laws made to exclude the African American communities of their rights. It was important for Dr. King to show his fight was against segregation as sure as the Apostle Paul fought for the Christian churches of his