The Meeting

On Friday night March 1, 2013 my mother and I attended our first Richard Bland play, “The Meeting”. The play was a small glimpse of two very important African Americans meeting to discuss their views and beliefs. Both Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were powerful men who left their mark on history by helping to shape America.  The two men saw the same problem; America was divided by race and African Americans were being discriminated upon. However, they sought completely different ways of resolving the problem. Whereas Malcolm X saw and felt the rage of his fellow African Americans and wanted to redirect the rage; Martin Luther King felt the same rage and pain and thought to transform it into peace and love. While both men were educated, they were though in different ways; one from the streets and the other through books. Much greatness could have been achieved if Malcolm X and Martin Luther King had joined forces and worked together to dispose of discrimination; unfortunately for history the two inspirational men would never link arms do to their opposing point of view. The play illustrates their true opposing strengths best through an arm-wrestling seen where there was no winner because both men had their message heard in the end.