In “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, Martin Luther King addresses the real issue behind segregation. It is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but rather the white magistrates who keep on telling him to wait. While they say that they agree with his goal and ideas nothing changes because, in the end, they value a world without tensions more than one with justice, and believe that it is not the right time, that he should “wait until a more convenient season." And, this mentality, Martin Luther King believes is worse than outright rejection. For him, acknowledging one’s…