His stance on discrimination against gays was probably more traditional. MLK Jr's letter is intended to reach the white people, who he was discriminated from.How do you believe that the two laws that prohibited segregation and racial discrimination in voting changed the lives of African Americans? First of all, throughout King's education, he experienced racial discrimination. Roosevelt passed an executive order that banned discrimination in the defense industry and created a group to enforce the order. A March 20 Years in the Making. To address this criticism, King began making a link between discrimination and poverty, and he began to speak out against the Vietnam War. Poverty could be abolished completely given that America was one of the richest nations in the world, he held. King personifies segregation as having manacles and discrimination as having chains. Yes, this could have been an example of direct race discrimination.