My heart along with many others dropt and was saddened by the horrendous news that swept our televisions’ of a young black boy shot and killed in Florida. The month of February 2012 and many months following had the country shook as more information about the Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman story surfaced. After about a year and a half of awaited justice, none came as they announce Zimmerman’s Innocent of all charges. A shaken nation had become even more shook and bewildered; how could a man that we all knew was guilty walk away free? With that the cry for “Black lives matter” began. Through a new means of socially media this issue has been brought to the forefront, but this a problem that has been happening since the end of times. Not
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Therefore there’s no doubt in my mind that this topic will also be a topic that will peak my interest for the duration of this multi-leveled assignment. However, the Question is how will I go about this issue? As stated before this is a very controversial issue being about race, for me to be the most successful I will have to figure out a way to get my argument across by pushing all the right buttons and avoiding push the wrong ones. A lot of people know that along with the cry for “Black lives matter” came a cry of “All lives matter” in contradiction. Upon deciding to do this topic for my issue proposal I was one of the people asking “Hey don’t all lives matter too?” (Maybe in a more nice tone then others), but after looking into the issue a little more I found that me and probably a lot of other people have it all wrong. Of course all lives matter but blacks lives is a more pressing issue at the moment. By bettering black lives the community should gain as a whole. People should stop looking at the issue so selfishly, and instead of looking at the little picture should open their eyes and see the beautiful big …show more content…
My obvious audience are the people who can relate with this issue the most, people in the black community. The shootings and killing are happening to family members of black people, poverty is happening in the homes of black people, there is a lot of black unemployment, black people are constantly dealing with social injustice and the list never ends. But it would be wrong for me to say that these problems are just happening in the black community. Other minorities and even some whites are going through these trials as well and are our allies in this issue. Mothers who want better futures for their children are our allies, politician and law makers who believe in equality and a better justice system are our allies. Student and young children are a good audience as well and should be aware of the issue because change starts with them. There are so many influential people that can be influences in this argument such as Obama who took the stance that black lives matter, Oprah, and other powerful and successful colored people. But with many people in agreeance with the issue there will be people in opposition. Such as people who are crying out “All lives matter” and people in authority such as cops who may feel that they are just doing their jobs or that their lives are in just as much danger. Or the very people in the justice system who let people like Zimmerman Rome free. I need to figure out what
Therefore there’s no doubt in my mind that this topic will also be a topic that will peak my interest for the duration of this multi-leveled assignment. However, the Question is how will I go about this issue? As stated before this is a very controversial issue being about race, for me to be the most successful I will have to figure out a way to get my argument across by pushing all the right buttons and avoiding push the wrong ones. A lot of people know that along with the cry for “Black lives matter” came a cry of “All lives matter” in contradiction. Upon deciding to do this topic for my issue proposal I was one of the people asking “Hey don’t all lives matter too?” (Maybe in a more nice tone then others), but after looking into the issue a little more I found that me and probably a lot of other people have it all wrong. Of course all lives matter but blacks lives is a more pressing issue at the moment. By bettering black lives the community should gain as a whole. People should stop looking at the issue so selfishly, and instead of looking at the little picture should open their eyes and see the beautiful big …show more content…
My obvious audience are the people who can relate with this issue the most, people in the black community. The shootings and killing are happening to family members of black people, poverty is happening in the homes of black people, there is a lot of black unemployment, black people are constantly dealing with social injustice and the list never ends. But it would be wrong for me to say that these problems are just happening in the black community. Other minorities and even some whites are going through these trials as well and are our allies in this issue. Mothers who want better futures for their children are our allies, politician and law makers who believe in equality and a better justice system are our allies. Student and young children are a good audience as well and should be aware of the issue because change starts with them. There are so many influential people that can be influences in this argument such as Obama who took the stance that black lives matter, Oprah, and other powerful and successful colored people. But with many people in agreeance with the issue there will be people in opposition. Such as people who are crying out “All lives matter” and people in authority such as cops who may feel that they are just doing their jobs or that their lives are in just as much danger. Or the very people in the justice system who let people like Zimmerman Rome free. I need to figure out what