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Amber Anderson COM-111-009 November 7th, 2020 Black Lives Matter Persuasive Speech Speaking Outline

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Introduction i.

As I look around social media streets, I see people misconstrue the black community because of their skin color.

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Why would the first instinct of a police officer pulling over a black driver be to pull their gun?

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The black lives matter movement (BLMM) is about justice for those who lost their lives because a white police officer felt threatened by the person's color.

(Transition: In all honesty, if blacks are not discriminated against based on color, why is their claim plausible and deniable?) II.

Racial profiling has long been practiced by white officers leading to a vicious cycle of mistrust between the police and the black community. i.

Black folks are intimidated by the police adding to their constant fear that their children will face the same abuse, arrest, and eventual death at the hand of police.

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a) Black ancestors died for their liberation, black leaders have fought for their liberation, yet black children are still suffering. b) In 2010, Aiyana Jones, a seven-year-old African-American girl, was shot dead in Michigan during a raid by the Michigan police department officers. Five years later, in 2015, officer Weekley who shot Aiyana, is still in court because of mistrials. (Transition: As an American citizen of color, it is sad that blacks have to live in fear and denial of justice because of their skin color.) The media's negative portrayal indicates that blacks commit hate crimes that attract the suffering they go through. ii.

According to the FBI, hate crimes executed by blacks account for 12.4%, which may double based on their population percentage. The report further states that whites' hate crimes are 52.4%, which still exceeds blacks' doubled numbers. a) Whites participate in more hate crimes than any other race in the U.S, yet the media portraying blacks as having an affinity to crime, thus subjecting them to police brutality. b) Amidst the peaceful protests following the death of another African-American, George Floyd, CCTV footage linked Margaret Channon, a 25-year-old woman setting five

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departmental police vehicles on fire. With the racial disparity, it is clear that blacks' negative portrayal will still make such news overlooked. (Transition: All lives matter is, therefore, the new bewilderment that tries to silence the black lives matter movement but is it necessary?) Discrimination against black people does not mean that other lives do not matter. It merely means that black lives are treated as being of lesser value. iii.

White people protesting on the streets with rage are not welcomed with police because their rage rarely takes them to the street, facing rubber bullets. a) The aura of respect and regard is given to white rage by law enforcement agents makes one wonder whether justice is only for the white. b) All lives do indeed matter, including all races, but not all lives can matter if black lives do not. The discrimination cuts across different ages, starting with Aiyana, a five-year-old killed in 2010; Trayvon Martin, a high school student killed in 2013, and Freddy Gray, a boy who died in hospital police brutality injuries to his spinal cord in 2015.

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(Transition: The racial profiling, negative portrayal by the media, and discrimination not only instill fear in African-Americans but lead to premature adverse decisions.) III.

Conclusion The movement has not only started on a global scale because of the death of George Floyd but because justice has to be served; thus, it is here to stay. iv.

The justice system negatively tries and treats African-American. With the flawed system, it is dangerous to be pulled over as a black person and be arrested. a) In 2015, Sandra Bland, an African-American woman, hanged herself while holding in jail after being arrested for refusing to step out of her vehicle without reasonable cause when asked by a police officer. b) Death seemed a better fate for Sandra than going through the flawed system that consistently discriminated against black people because of their skin color.

(Transition: Is this what African-American ancestors fought for? Following an African-American around the store while he or she is shopping, is it called for? When their lease application is denied, is it not because of the color of their skin? In reality, is it not true that they are treated differently because of the dark color?)

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Works Cited 1. Roots and Recalibrated Expectations: Prologue to a Movement." Making All Black Lives Matter, 2019, pp. 11-28. Arora, Maneesh, and Christopher T. Stout. "Letters for Black Lives: Co-ethnic Mobilization and Support for the Black Lives Matter Movement." Political Research Quarterly, vol. 72, no. 2, 2018, pp. 389-402. Faust, A., et al. "Black Lives Matter and the movement for Black lives." Social Movements, 1768–2018, 2019, pp. 240-253 Kerrigan, Heather. "FBI Releases Report on Hate Crime Statistics; Federal Agency Recommends Anti–Hate Crime Strategies: November 12 and 13, 2019." Historic Documents of 2019, 2020, pp. 638-646. Loken, S. "The Black Lives Matter movement and why the response of all lives matter is misleading." Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol. 37-38, no. 1, 2017, pp. 63-81 "The Psychological Science on Racial Profiling: Implications for the End Racial Profiling Act." PsycEXTRA Dataset, 2013.

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