Ethical Issues In Selma

In 2014, a revolutionary movie named Selma depicted the Black activism and civil rights movement that occurred in the 1960’s with one the most famous black activist leaders, Martin Luther King Jr. The key emphasis of this movie was the voting rights march of Selma, Alabama to Montgomery in 1965. In fact, the main goal of Doctor King was to make President Lyndon Johnson pass a law that would allow the black community to have the rights of vote. In this essay, we will focus on the journey of Martin Luther King and his fellows for the fighting of their voting rights and, we will focus on the several aspects that the movie highly illustrates.
Firstly, one of the main aspects that the movie Selma put out in the relationship between Mr King and the

In fact, he states that even though he is fortunate to deliver the community’s message to the president himself, they, President, and federal government, chose to either delay the actions that must be taken or simply ignore the requisitions. Therefore, Mister King argues that the only way to get the President’s attention would be to use the press (tv News and newspapers). The media are important to him because it is one of the only ways to raise the white consciousness. In order to do so, the tactics Doctor King thought would be appropriate were to use “drama”. These dramas referred to marches, protests, and boycotts. Doctor Luther King thought those methods would be the only way to gain headlines in media. In some ways, I agree with these tactics because by protesting and marching the government knows how serious the issues are to the Black Community as his slogan was “Negotiate, demonstrate and resist” (King, Selma, 2014) peacefully. Martin Luther King Jr. made sure that the violence would only come from the white community and never from blacks. All he wanted his community and him to do was to march or protest silently and peacefully rather than being a threat to the white

President Johnson was portrayed as kind of an angry white man and someone that was not willing to help in the beginning of the movie. He also does not entirely trust the black community as he sent the FBI bugging homes and hotels of the black community. Also, he is presented as an undecisive president. In fact, lots of his sayings were based on “I can’t” or “It can wait” which shows that he would still want to take actions but was a bit scared to do so because he had to consider others’ opinion of him. Even though in the beginning of the movie Lyndon Johnson was not portrayed as a strong supporter for the Black Civil Rights, he at the end cedes and passed out the law allowing Blacks to vote. This decision proves that he started a strong supporter and that will affect his legacy. This idea of legacy was important to him because he wanted to be seen as a democratic President, someone who cared and defended the idea of anti-segregation and