Read the excerpt from "Make Gentle the Life of This World."For those of you who are Black and are tempted to be filled with hatred and distrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man. But we have to make an effort in the United States, we have to make an effort to understand, to go beyond these rather difficult times.
Answer
A
He establishes his authority to speak on the topic of a peaceful response to violence.
B
He suggests that he is deserving of sympathy and understanding.
C
He establishes his authority to lead future protests against racial violence.
D
He suggests a common motivation for the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and his brother.