I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. Moz in Oz Hilarius I find this article to be extremely rude.
You generalize the moderate white as someone who is against racial equality, which is simply not true. Make your own choices and follow through. As the other commentators were able to see, the point is not that moderates are racists, but that for any proposed change there is a large group of people who support the goal but who find good reasons why for any time, now is not the right time for action.
Bob is more concerned with a perceived rude comment against people who are like him, than the injustice that King writes about from his prison cell. How dare MLK point out truth that destabilizes his ordered worldview.
The Raven I suppose then, as it was now, the attempt was made to clip the political spectrum at the center, so that it was possible for privileged conservatives to believe they were actually moderates, not conservatives vested in the status quo.
Corey Robin Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.
