In Martin Luther King's letter from Birmingham Jail, he speaks a lot about the fact that it is time to take action against members of "a certain race that oppresses other race". This lead to his point on "white moderate". By white moderate he meant, "the people who chose not the speak up to defend the justice". They are to uncomfortable to make changes and to disturbed the the situation, so they just stand back and watch the situation from a far. He also mentions how they were agreeing with the Civil Rights Movement but were not acting on it, to not disturb peace. He has ben told multiple…