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Black Lives Matter Persuasive Speech

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Some folks say and support “Black Lives” and others, “All Lives”. As time go on, things take a turn ‘for the worse’. The ‘turn for the worse’ is due to the mindset of many people and the mass media. With time should come justice, peace and common ground on what is happening, but what if no one is supportive or have no knowledge of what is to come? The saying of “All Lives Matter” is deleterious and ruinous to the “Black Lives Matter” movement and support and to the black community by deteriorating their beliefs, livelihood, and mentality. Based on one’s mentality, your mind is the characteristic attitude of the way you think of a person or a group, given this knowledge, your mentality and mindset sets together the things you say about anything, or in this case, towards something. What you say about something is your freedom of speech in America, the first amendment of the constitution, “or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances” (Madison, 1789). This amendment has it’s aspects where it helps out the fellow people of America livelihood, but instead, people can be deleterious towards what they say to someone and is also faced with hypocrisy.

You may ask, “How does this deal with saying “All Lives Matter” when someone else say “Black Lives Matter”, that’s my opinion but what’s bad about it”? What’s bad about is how you say it, the tone your voice is in and the choice of words you may also choose, depending on how you say things, it differs and it can come off as a hate speech. “Free speech cannot be unlimited and is not in any jurisdiction, even though some like to pretend it is. Every society sets certain legal limits defined by knowledge of and respect for local customs, sensibilities and what is perceived, rightly or wrongly, as existentialist threats” (¶5, Kutty, 2016).

Your mind holds, maintains and knows the knowledge within your head, but who says you can’t be influence by the mass media and be affected as well? The mass media is any form and means of communication such as your town or state newspaper or even your TV that can reach a large sum of people, based on the knowledge they

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