Logos of "It's a Dark Day in Our Nation"

Logos refers to using reasoning to persuade a certain audience about something. In this sermon, Martin Luther King Jr. was trying to show and persuade the audience that the initiation of the Vietnam War by the United States was wrong. The third sentence of the entire sermon begins with, "Now, let me make it clear in the beginning, that I see this war as an unjust, evil, and futile war." He then goes on to say that the American public has been hidden from the truth about the war, which he claims is that the United States were supporting a man named general Ky during the war. General Ky was the prime minister of South Vietnam from 1965-1967. This bothered Martin Luther King because Vietnam was a colony of France. When France attempted to reconquer Vietnam, they went through 8 years of conflict, and general Ky was fighting for the French against his own people. Martin Luther King also mentioned that general Ky's hero was Adolf Hitler. This is Martin Luther King's use of Logos, telling people that in this war, the United States are aiding this man. - Justin