Oh Miss Jane...

This letter is written to Jane Pittman as if she was still alive.

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Oh Jane! As a Puerto Rican girl who recently read the novel by Ernest J. Ganes, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, I write to you to share a question that came into my mind. I am eager to discuss this topic since you lived throughout The Civil Rights Movement. As you know, Martin Luther King Jr. was a minister and activist who was a leader in the movement previously mentioned. One of the things that I admire the most about his character is that his role in the advancement of civil rights did not involved violent civil disobedience since this went against his Christian beliefs which were extremely important in his daily life. So my question is this: What might Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. say to the President Donald Trump? 

I was reading an article that mentioned the most famous sermons of Dr. King and there was one in particular that caught my attention. The sermon is called "The Drum Major Instinct". To summarize it and refresh your memory, it is the one that talks about an easy to understand image, the drum major for a marching band, that represent the ego that is hidden within us that seeks its own ends and power. His own words being these:

 "And there is deep down within all of us an instinct. It’s a kind of drum major instinct—a desire to be out front, a desire to lead the parade, a desire to be first. . .There comes a time that the drum major instinct can become destructive. . . If this instinct is not harnessed, it becomes a very dangerous, pernicious instinct. For instance, if it isn’t harnessed, it causes one’s personality to become distorted. I guess that’s the most damaging aspect of it: what it does to the personality. If it isn’t harnessed, you will end up day in and day out trying to deal with your ego problem by boasting. Have you ever heard people that—you know, and I’m sure you’ve met them—that really become sickening because they just sit up all the time talking about themselves. And they just boast and boast and boast, and that’s the person who has not harnessed the drum major instinct . . .

And then the final great tragedy of the distorted personality is the fact that when one fails to harness this instinct, he ends up trying to push others down in order to push himself up. And whenever you do that, you engage in some of the most vicious activities. You will spread evil, vicious, lying gossip on people, because you are trying to pull them down in order to push yourself up. So the great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct." -Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.

For me, something similar to this is what Dr. King would use to formulate what he would say to President Trump. I personally see this present in the way that Trump expresses and behave. He is the drum major chief. What do you think Miss Jane? Would this be close Dr. King's line of thought regarding this situation?  Why is this something to be worried about? Because he is the man who occupies one of the highest and most powerful office in the world and this may become a great danger that the country has never seen.