In this essay, King "responds to whites telling blacks to "wait" for desegregation by mentioning several atrocities committed by whites on blacks, including lynching, drowning, and police brutality. He continues on these emotional lines by expressing how children begin to become deeply affected by segregation when they realize that they are considered inferior to whites."
He shows how the build-up of these feelings in black children eventually turn into hatred for whites when he says, "There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair." This kind of "threat" refers and confirms the writings of Booker T. Washington.
"He later discusses how Abraham Lincoln, John Bunyan, and Thomas Jefferson were extremists because they believed in a free nation. King quotes Thomas Jefferson, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men were created equal." King emphasizes that principles this nation of America were founded on which evokes nationalism and love for one's country."
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