Black Lives Matter Persuasive Speech

In light of the sorry history of discrimination and its devastating impact on the lives of Negroes, bringing the Negro into the mainstream of American life should be a state interest of the highest order. To fail to do so is to ensure that America will forever remain a divided society" (“The man who turned racism into history THE LAW’If white supremacy has subsided in the United States, it’s largely due to Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court.”, par 10). African Americans were mistreated, viewed as lower class, and were not equal in the eyes of the people or the law. Although the law changed, people were not as quick to the change, so African American were continually mistreated until others stood up for them and put their feet down just like Thurgood Marshall did in order to let African Americans gain equality. Marshall was a strong believer in the law and that things can and would change for the better like how he suggested "The Negro who was once enslaved by law

These prisoners’ requests were not outrageous, they only wanted healthcare, educational opportunities, fair visitation rights and improved food. I pose a question: was it because they were prisoners and excluded from the human population or because most of them were colored? The requests were basic negotiations of fundamental human rights. Moreover, I recommend everyone of the human race, domestically and internationally, to watch this uncovered footage of black America during the Black Power

W.E.B DuBois’ plan was smarter than Booker T. Washington’s because DuBois’ plan was to fight for the rights of African Americans, and give people a good and equal education. Booker T Washington’s plan was to ignore segregation and discrimination so he can just focus on the wealth and education of former slaves to win over the whites acceptance. One part of DuBois’ plan was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP. This Association was one of the most influential civil rights organization. It “focused on legal strategies designed to confront the critical civil rights issues.”.

In black theology the goal is to discern what God is up to and how God is working on behalf of the downtrodden and fighting for them against their oppressors. This line of thinking led Cone to make the bold claim, which must have been quite shocking and offensive, especially to white Christians in the late 60s and early 70s, that “any message that is not related to the liberation of the poor in the society is not Christ 's message,” which for him meant that “Christian theology must become Black Theology” that has as its primary consideration the needs of the oppressed and marginalized in society

When in retrospect it is only evident that the tribulations that occurred were tribulations that one could and did effectively overpower. The need of African-Americans to be recognized as being equal and worthy is morally the only debt from the nation upon the descendants to those who did by flesh and blood endure the atrociousness of slavery 150 years ago; as it would also apply upon any other race or group of people within the country. African-Americans need and deserve equal opportunities. The question should be, then, how can we help these individuals presently? Not how could we have helped their antecedents?

And when the potential assailants of a crime were Black, US psychiatric and popular culture frequently blamed “Black Culture” or Black activist politics–not individual, disordered brains–for the threats such men imagined to pose” (2015, 244). It is great how the authors help shape the idea that it is obvious that the United States cultural tries to justify every crime and targets a certain group and labels them in order to control how the population thinks or sees a certain individual because they are not the “normal” American citizen. They help support this idea by providing evidence that shows it has been like this for years before now, it states in the article, “A number of historical documents suggest that racialized and gendered overtones also shaped 1960s-era associations between schizophrenia and gun violence in the United States” (Metzl & MacLeish 2015, 244). All of the supporting evidence helps explain why the society tends to assume that there is a certain type of person to look out for when it comes to crimes or gun-related

Through the various works of historic Black Intellectual Jeremiads and modern civil rights activists, one can understand that Black individuals in America have and continue to be subjected to positions of unfreedom. This social fact— evoked by the oppressor’s (whites) need to keep the oppressed (Blacks) ignorant, thereby disenfranchised and incapacitated— problematizes notions introduced by James Baldwin when he states, “we cannot be free until they are also free.” Though Baldwin’s optimistic intentions of American unity as the result of black and white solidarity seemingly revokes Black agency in our own liberation and leaves us permanently doomed to white recognition of their own immorality, he is correct to an extent. This is because systemic

Through the book DeGruy talks about the four major contributing factors for the reason why America is the way it is. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, vacant esteem; ever-present anger and racial socialization are all very important to making America a fair and equal country. Post traumatic slave syndrome is the everlasting effect that slavery has had on African Americans for example how African Americans perceive other darker and “bad hair” African Americans less than fair skinned and “good hair” African American. This was practiced by the slave owners and would give more power and privileges to the fair skinned good hair slaves. This is just one example of PTSS and its effect on African Americans today.

It creates anger, and the black community holds a lot of anger with every right and once more connecting to a previous statement that commons in to this is understanding that anger, instead of shutting it down or stereotyping them as “overly sensitive and angry black people.” In a article post in the Minnpost titled “The Black Experience in America…” author Ralph Remington openly questions why it is anyone would not understand that their is a immense amount of anger? “Are whites actually surprised that there is anger in the black community? Why wouldn 't there be? The black existence in America is a tragic, wonderful, heroic, bitter struggle originally commenced by a horrific forced trans-Atlantic voyage. Can anyone with a reasonable mind not think that a people with our history in these United States might not feel a bit of

After the murder of Treyvon Martin in the year 2012 the Black Lives Matter movement was created in response to this unjust death. The title of the article I chose to address is titled “The rise of Black Lives Matter: Trying to break the cycle of violence and silence”. This article extend beyond the idea of Black Lives Matter and wants the reader to be informed on what it is like to be black in america. The author includes a wide amount of information to help the reader understand why this cry for help was even created and why they want to stand up and make a change in our society. The purpose of this piece is to inform the general audience as to what Black Lives Matter really is and explain how they hope to rise as a movement.

He further addresses double consciousness in this book. He expands on the idea of the “freedom” that black people received not being freedom. The weight of ignorance that black people had to endure because of economic and educational barriers was also a point made. One idea that stood out to me is when he commented on the destruction of the black family due to

He was a key figure, perhaps the key figure, in making the NAACP a truly national organization capable of mounting the attack that eventually led to the dismantling of the system of segregation by law” (James Weldon Johnson’s Life and Career). Its hard to imagine how African Americans felt living with this around them all the time, to know if a white person had something against you. They could claim you did something you didn’t even do and you could pay the price with your life. What if there was never a time African Americans had to face the Jim Crow laws and lynching, how would it be now? How would history have changed?

The article “Let Rachel Dolezal Be as Black as She Wants to Be” by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar purposely targeting the audiences of those criticize Rachel Dolezal as a liar and untruthful of being a black woman. The point that the author trying to persuade is to change the way we perceived Dolezal as a person. Perhaps, consider what she has done and will be doing to assist the black community in the future. Jabbar supports how Dolezal is the “chairwoman of a police oversight committee monitoring fairness in police activities”, meanwhile, black people will have a better chance off mistreatment toward their race. In additionally, we cannot blame her for the influences she came to adapt through her African-American siblings.

The Panthers were fighting for equal housing, jobs, employment, education, and an end of police brutality across the nation on blacks and their support of civil rights movement and equality for all blacks. Newton and Seale devised a 10 point plan to empower blacks focusing on their rights as citizens with some of their views being unrealistic ie: having blacks released from prison and protesting the Vietnam War and the killing of

Cha-Jua also stressed the importance of African Americans making themselves aware of racial hostility. Dr. Cha-Jua detailed “fronts” that contribute to racial hostility and oppression of African Americans: the “marginalization of blacks from the labor force,” “nullification of hard-won civil rights,” “anti-black terrorism,” and race-based mass incarceration (Cha-Jua, 9/8/2015). These factors are noted to stem the systematic war on blacks. A war that originates from the white community (Cha-Jua, 9/9/2015). In my opinion, dissonance between the white and black communities was never resolved.