Do The Right Thing and "How Bigger Was Born"

There are many similarities between Do The Right Thing and "How Bigger Was Born." Buggin' Out was like Bigger in "How Bigger Was Born". He was ready to start a fight with the white man and ready to use violence to his advantage. He was mostly all talk which is what Bigger was most of the time. He could say that he was going to do something and then not follow through, or get scared when the time came to do what he promised. Buggin' Out also got mad about little things, like Sal not having famous black people up on his Wall Of Fame. Bigger got mad at people who weren't doing anything to directly harm or effect him. There's a difference in "How Bigger Was Born" and Do The Right Thing and that's the different emotions or themes in each. "How Bigger Was Born" was more about the different people's personalities that went into the character Bigger Thomas and how they each were different yet somehow the same. Do The Right Thing was all about race relations and how one little thing can trigger so much hate and uproar that people can be seriously hurt. In "How Bigger Was Born" the different Biggers are angry at someone and they feel held back mostly by white people. In Do The Right Thing Buggin' Out gets along with Sal until he sees Sal's Wall Of Fame which only has pictures of famous Italian-Americans on the wall (because Sal is an Italian-American). Buggin' Out automatically wants to fight Sal to get some black people up on the wall. Sal's sons want to fight Buggin' Out so they can go back to the way things were. Bigger wants to fight every white person he sees because he feels like they are the chains that are keeping him from living his life the way he wants to. The 1st Bigger wants to fight whoever he can so he can seem bigger and tougher than the rest of the people in the town.

Question 3

How did the SCLC explain its assertion that wide economic gaps infringed upon the rights of poor

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They said that the poor people are poor because they are kept from power. There are also many people that are poor. They don't have a right to do anything that they rich people are. Rich people saw poverty as the enemy, so all poor people were the enemy that needed to be eliminated.

The Promised Land: The Poor Peoples Campaign

Dr. King and SCLC were fighting for the poor people of America. "...We must include American Indians, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and even poor whites." There were over 35 million persons in America who don't have enough money for a decent life they earn less than $3130 a year for a family of four or $1540 for an individual. Thousands of poor people came to the center of power Washington DC to demand involving jobs, income, and decent life for all poor people. They said that they would get poor and rich people and stay until the Government responds. They built a camp called Resurrection City. The camp got dirty and had horrible living conditions. Pretty soon the police came in and arrested people, sent some home, and razed the city to the ground. The Poor Peoples Campaign had failed, they didn't get what they wanted and due to the police they couldn't stay until the government responded.