Tyranny Of The Majority

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According to Mills essay the “tyranny of the majority” is basically the will of the people, but only those who actively participate within the government, which arose to stop the tyranny of a single individual, but this concept gives the majority all the power because the majority always has their way. This form of tyranny manifested within King’s essay because back then black people where regarded different from white people, they did not have the same right as the whites and were the minority within society, thus the white people were the majority. The majority of people agree on the oppression of black people; thus, the majority was able to inflict segregation among the minority. the minority was always at a disadvantage because the majority

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