Duggan Was A Gangster Not Nelson Mandela Summary

I am writing to convey my thoughts and opinions about the article about Mark Duggan. Some of the facts and opinions were controversial because there were many issues which you wrote about in the article which effect his race, for example you have wrote about the way he had a curious hybrid accent and the way you wrote that Duggan was a gangster not Nelson Mandela. This manipulates many readers into making judgments about people by the way they look, without even knowing how the person really is.
Firstly, in the headline it states; “Duggan was a gangster not Nelson Mandela.” This comparison is manipulative as you trying to show that he is the opposite of Mandela. There are also no similarities about Duggan and Mandela, so why even mention him in the article? There was also no evidence that he was a gangster as he wasn’t record as a criminal in the police records. He only had minor offenses like having a cannabis possession and the sale of stolen goods’ The headline can confuse the readers about the urban black community into thinking that all black people are gangsters, which would be stereotyping them, because of one black person- Duggan. The status of Duggan being a gangster can lead many people to have racist opinions for example hating black people as it can seem …show more content…
This can be offensive because if people in an area are very violent, people can think that they will get influenced and become violent themselves. This will be stereotyping people as they would be thinking that everyone in that area would be violent. People thought that about Duggan as he must have got influenced by the people in his area, which made him violent and forced him to carry a