Why Is Segregation Still Relevant Today

It’s better late than never, is a saying people usually say when people take too long in doing something for them. They say it’s better for things to be done one day, than for things never to be done at all; but what if civilians are seeking justice and equality from the government. If civilians are being treated inhumanly and what they are asking for, justice, is put to the side as if they did not exist. Justice cannot wait for later because it will only spark up the fire to treat civilians unfairly and hurt the civilians who are pleading for justice. Segregation is one of the issues that were put aside, and justice seemed to be refused to the people that wanted it gone. In a “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, by Martin Luther King Jr., expresses
Having to live in a world that does not give them what they deserve. For instance the children having to be told that they cannot do things that white kids did like go to the carnival because they can get hurt and no justice will be done or the adults getting whipped because they were in a place just for whites (927). That their call to justice is put on a long hold and never getting picked up to solve the problem; that people will keep witnessing their people getting hurt by the government who should be treating them equally and punishing the people who are doing harm to innocent people who do not deserve it. Justice being put on hold is like when you call to the doctor because you are in pain and the only thing they tell you is that you have to wait because they doctor is not there to help you; like the government is not there to help the civilians out. King mentions in his letter that other countries are getting what they want and helping their people in a “jetlike speed” and that for African Americans the justice to sit and drink coffee at a restaurant is moving in a “horse-and-buggy” pace (926). Showing how with no justice people cannot enjoy the simplest things in life without