Animal Violence Persuasive Speech

In today’s world, violence is increasing. Whether it be about race, or species, it needs to be stopped. As of 2015, 776 people have been killed by police in the United States, where only 161 of them have been unarmed. Also in 2015, a thirteen year old lion was brutally hunted and murdered. This death of a lion, has had more publicity than the 161 murders of unarmed black men and women. This shows the type of society we live in, where an animal has more outrage than a human. When a black person is killed, they are called “criminals, animals, etc.” by the world. When a white dentist kills an endangered lion, he is referred by his title of doctor, or his profession as a dentist. Gruen is discussing the murders of Samuel Dubose, Cecil the Lion, and Sandra Bland. Two of these people are African Americans who were brutally murdered by the police. I didn’t hear of Samuel Dubose’s murder until this article. That shows how little coverage these deaths receive. I didn’t hear …show more content…
“Human outsiders were ruled not to be really human at all”. This gives us a great example on the protestors for Black Lives Matter. News Reports and police see these people as not human. They treat them like animals, trying to lock them in a jail cell and take away their rights. They are treated like some other species that hasn’t been domesticated when really, they’re humans and know how to live on their own. Another example being from Khan’s Orientalism, “Racial superiority requires racial distinction, separating various peoples into discrete ethnic groups.” Khan then goes on to describe how the size of skulls go in to determining a person’s ethnicity. The smaller the skull, the dumber the person. They claimed that white Europeans had the biggest skulls because they were smarter and more powerful while anyone from Native’s, Africans, and Asians had smaller skulls that also determined their