While discussing the role that Western science plays in preventing the “Black scholar from attaining personal liberation”, Cross sheds light on the fact that “Western science rhetoric suggests nonviolent, rational-intellectual solutions and emphatically rejects violent resolutions as irrational and even ‘immoral'”(23). How does this characterization play into Cross’ understanding of the five stages of transition? How might Martin Luther King, Jr. react to Cross’ claim?
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I think Martin Luther King, Jr would agree with many of the issues that Cross examines however I believe that he would strongly appose Cross’s call to potentially resort to “war” which is contrary to Martin Luther King, Jr’s support of nonviolent protest because “it makes it possible for the individual to secure moral ends through moral means” (214).