In 1967, a riot broke out amongst the city of Detroit resulting in the death of forty-three people, over one thousand injuries, and the destruction over two thousand buildings. Police forces incited the riot by raiding a nightclub, which evolved into a five day-long display of violence and inability to compromise. The only American riots to surpass the violence of the 1967 Detroit riot were the 1863 draft riots during the U.S. civil war. In 1967, the Nation Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders concluded that the United States is "a year closer to being two societies, black and white, increasingly separate and scarcely less unequal" (Edmondson 693). Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke out against violent uproars such as the Detroit riot and pushed for the education and understanding of all men. Two separate black and white societies were not what King had envisioned and in response to the growing hate, he campaigned around the country to disperse his race relation views. Whether King thought the vast majority had already somewhat bought into the idea of mass integration or not, he was determined to ensure that his messages were heard not only in the United States, but throughout the world. Many different cultures became exposed to one another in the sixties and the exposure only grew with time. The idea of "The World House" suggests that the world must put aside foolish concepts such as racism and war to wholly better the life of mankind.

Martin Luther King Jr. used his knowledge of world news to inform those of his country about the countless occurrences of racism on the other side of the globe. The 1960's were plagued with the cruel acts surrounding apartheid in Africa, which made for excellent examples in King's educating speakers. White and black relations everywhere were stirred up in 1962 after Nelson Mandela, an instigator of human rights and equality, was sentenced to life in jail for trying to overthrow the state. Force wasn't necessarily the answer for Mandela or for King. King believed that "all men are interdependent" and that "we are inevitably our brother's keeper because we are our brother's brother. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly" (King 292). Therefore, violence in the United States, Africa, or anywhere else will affect those around the world who notice. Locksley said that, "the problems involved in arriving at acceptable and workable international standards are compounded because it is easier to eliminate overt and formal manifestations of racial supremacy than to eradicate its covert and less formalized underpinning"(Locksley, 697), which ties together the strides for unity that King takes. Franz Fanon once said "you are rich because you are white, you are white because you are rich" (Fanon). On that, Locksley Edmondson spoke on the backwards, social moral by saying, "so pervasive is the race factor that it has even intruded into the politics of international communism" (Locksley, 702). 

King did not condone war, but he did preach about how "the time has come for an all-out war against poverty" (King 293). He did not ask for world changing efforts without reciprocation, because that would have contrasted with his vision of the entire world pitching in to create a better one. Though king didn't support conflicts in Vietnam and Korea, he made it a point to communicate how he can still be an United States citizen without supporting pointless military advances. King "refused to accept the idea that being an American citizen obligated him to support his country in an unjust war. He refused to equate dissent with disloyalty"(Cone 464).

 King proposed that the wealthier countries could donate money and resources to help poor countries ascend to greater classes and states of living. He believed it was not only the job of the wealthy countries to contribute, but also the job of the subsequent countries to reciprocate the efforts received. King best summarized his feelings of major contribution with the quote "the agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich" (King 292). Implementing a long-term plan to support third world countries would not be easy for the super powers of the world to do, because it meant that they would have to resist "traveling a dead-end road of inordinate selfishness" (King 292). The powerful countries were preoccupied with the mentality of attaining precious resources at any cost, no matter how inhumane. Meanwhile, consumable countries in Africa, South America, and Asia slowly began to fall to pieces, which provoked the question: "do we have the morality and courage required to live together as brothers and not be afraid?"(King 293)

Communism created a great scare in the years proceeding WWII and it oppressed the citizens of Russia in a way that resembled the oppression regarding African Americans of the sixties. Kings said that, "communism will never be defeated by the use of atomic bombs or nuclear weapons. Let us not join those who shout war and who through their misguided passions urge the United States to relinquish its participation in the United Nations" (297). In the U.S. at this time, African Americans were exemplifying a mild lust for violence and an extreme need of change. King did not want physical confrontations to be the solutions sought after for eliminating racism and communism because the answers did not lie in inflicting harm upon others. Fighting global issues could be effectively addressed in peaceful ways through the support of opposing views rather than directly fighting against the issue. Kings said "we must not engage in negative anti-Communism, but rather in a positive thrust for democracy, realizing that our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action in behalf of justice. We must with affirmative action seek to remove those conditions of poverty, insecurity and injustice which are the fertile soil in which the seed of Communism grows and develops."(297) This take on fighting communism was communal with the fight against racism.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. exercised traits of an idol and a man of the people, which made him very relevant in the fight against the global poison: racism. He puts into perspective the ways in which national and international struggles should be approached and for what reasons, such as to disregard hate and love one another. Logic and reason were used to create sensible and effective plans that most brilliantly affected the entire world. The cumulative world efforts that King discussed were so beyond the sixties and the present's capabilities because of how soiled with hate, racism, and senseless tradition the planet still is. Only when the world is ready to accept that "other-preservation is the first law of life," grand ideas of world bettering plans may be implemented and done so without the fear of losing money, land, or resources (King, 294). Because individual possessions do not matter without anyone to share in them, ideals would take on a skewed and invalid aesthetic perspective. It is hard to imagine any progress, or what feels like real progress, when the people inhabiting the earth cannot even figure out how to simply coexist. King was far ahead of his time considering his ability to understand and rally many people over one cause that is quite mature and essential to the world. 

