When watching a TED talk you automatically know your going to leave with some new profound thought or have your ways of thinking changed slightly. The primes behind TED talks is “Ideas worth spreading” right there in their mission statement is what persuasive speech is. In Ms. Alexander’s TED talk she did just that, she spread the idea to her audience of what the future of race in America will look like if we don’t seek to change the social, economical, and political policies that almost certainly put people in america as legal second class citizens.
From a communication and speech analysis stand point Ms. Alexander kept her self poised, keep her tone of voice smooth and inflecting when she needed to drive certain points home. She kept the audience engaged by moving around telling personal anecdotes that related to her topic to allow the persuasiveness of her speech to drive home about the problem of the criminal justice system and race as a whole. Her first point that really captivates and hooks you in within a matter of minutes of listening to the speech is when she says, “ People of color are the main ones incarcerated…Put in cages and treated worse than animals.” Right their she captivates and audience that otherwise believe she's crazy talking about race in the criminal justice system. Ms. Alexander managed to captivate and all WHITE audience on a topic that most had already made up there minds on. Her speech was effective in that all statistics about her topic she
In the book “Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America” by Sheryll Cashin starts off by Cashin argues about the disadvantages about black children who come from low income families and are not getting rightfully accepted base on where they come from. That they are using the placed they come from to determine whether they are accepted. Cashin use her credibility and other credible source to argue her point in the book. The type of ethos use display throughout Cashin book was with authority she seeks a lot of profession option and inserted credible statement. Therefore, if people were read the book and had what if question in there head then credible source that were used in the book help answer that question.
The Color of Christ is a book that evokes memories of the exhausted images and lives of Jesus which preponderantly contributes to “the saga of race in America.” (5) The book modifies and wisely propagates the stereotypical images of Jesus throughout the history of the U.S, which offers the most striking responses. In the book, Blum and Harvey portray the world as a place that is filled with various images about Jesus. The book, in its entirety, has been used by the two authors to substantiate the atrocities that were prevalent at a time when there was supremacy among the whites. White supremacy echoed loudly and was basically reinforced by the argument that Jesus Christ was white so he would agree with this notion. From the vicissitudes, and the happenings in the first six chapters of the book, Blum and Harvey have carefully interwoven a tapestry of visions and dreams of Americans to illustrate the fact that Americans have remade Christ. Instead of the thought that we, humans were made in the likeness of Christ, the son of G-d, we reinvented this theory of Christ in our likeness to suit our bias whether it be positive or negative. Again, Christ is emblematic of their aspirations strivings for power and racial justice, and their deeply- entrenched terrors.
In this chapter, the author Bonilla- Silva speaks on race in contemporary America and the concept of color blindness in today’s society. Color blindness is the idea that our society no longer takes race into account in our social policies, because we as a society have overcome racism. The author believes that is false and proves his case with studies he has done. According to him racism is committed by the major race population, which is the white population. He states that African Americans and Latin Americans are extremely discriminated against by the white community as a result of white privilege. White privilege is defined as societal privileges that benefit white people, beyond what is commonly experienced by non-white under the same social,
Shirley Chisholm's speech is effective because of her use of logical flow of ideas, persuasive techniques, credible sources, and counter-arguments.
A strategy that she uses is asking questions. She states “What would the legal effects of the equal rights amendment really be? The equal rights amendment would govern only the relationship between the state and its citizens” this gives you a reason to see that she knows what she’s talking about. By asking questions she gets the people thinking and answering them provides the audience with of what will happen if they did this. Meanwhile it gives a reason for the people to understand why she
What can we say about race in America that has not been said before? In reading the book, one gets more disheartened yet. Though the author's statistics are now dated, I found a calculation made by the National Criminal Justice Commission that by the year 2020, 33.3 percent of African Americans and 25.6% of Hispanics between the ages of 18 and 34 will be incarcerated most frustrating as those numbers would seem to apply to the loss of young people through war or epidemics such as aids. In the harsh environment of prisons, race becomes the all- encompassing issue.
She let people see how strongly and passionately she wants to end gun violence throughout the speech. The crowd at the rally also totally supports all intense arguments that she made. They clap their hands, repeat her words and shout out loud their agreement. To summarize, after her viral rally, there is almost nothing that can catch the nation from paying attention to the Parkland tragedy at this moment.
She states many of her opinions on how the press should stop telling and spreading false events and ideas in the newspaper. When given the chance she tells her audience journalist about how the American press about her feels and how she feels challenged by them. Overall, the beginning of her speech tells the audience how she is going to state information and how they should listen to
Introduction: Race has always been a major topic in American history, and it continues to be today. People are constantly fighting about race, but why? Why and how did race become such a big part of the United States of America’s political, economic, and social culture? And why is does it cause so much sectional division within the United States? Race has been such a controversial and major topic that, in order to end racial problems, a war had to be fought, court cases had to be won, and laws had to be passed banning it. The topic can be traced back to beginning of America’s history as the colonies, and can be followed through past the Civil War.
When the first Irish immigrants landed on the eastern shores of America in the 18th century, they were met by intolerance from the Native whites who saw them as a threat to the American way of life. The Dangers of Foreign Immigration, an article written by Samuel Morse in 1835, exposits much of the anti-immigrant sentiment prevalent in the 19th century. To the natives, the Irish were simply "niggers turned inside out" (Anonymous Satirism), who came to America as refugees from Ireland to deprive them of their wealth and prosperity. Thus, the immigrants of Erin were forced to join the ranks of the slave, the German, and the free Negro laborer at the very bottom of the American diaspora. But instead of accepting the hand which they were
I believe race is so central to how we organize social life in many societies because it has been the defining factor that breaks humans apart from one another just based off of something as simple as sight. It is the easiest way to classify individuals aside from gender or nationality. Race has also become something that individuals have personally adopted, and I believe many people are more comfortable being around those that share the same characteristics as themselves.
With all the techniques she has used they were very effective and persuasive to the audience. Her speech made a difference in many people's life that day because she connected to women mainly. She could relate to the audience a lot because they were adults with children which she has and she goes through things like a normal parent also she gives a lot of advice that can help with the problems the children are having or even the adults. With Michelle Obama being the first lady the speech was very important and effective but if it was someone else the certain points wouldn’t have got across the way she did it. Michelle Obama has a lot of respect and she is a role model to some women in the world so that's a perfect reason the speech was
Racism affects the future movement of American democracy. I don't know if I agree or not, but I think racism is not the only thing wrong with America. We have everyone to blame for the condition of our country. It is the responsibility of all to turn it around. However, there is a social divide among Americans. Therefore, the white majority may feel they have more say on the matter. Nevertheless, we all as Americans have equal rights. I do believe that Mr. Trump is using this to pollute the minds of those willing to listen. At the same time, racism is not something that will be gone overnight. For this reason, we should continue to fight and endure it so the next generations will not.
What, seemed out of place was the fact that this was given in church which I tough was odd swing that politic and church should not link and the fact that she stated that she was voting for Hilary Clinton. the speaker creates and maintain audience excitement and attentiveness right through the speech people were cheering and applause memorable time trough the speech. I would characterize the approach the speaker took in presenting her material as aggressive bout honest I would describe her tone of voice as
It is evident not only from reading Tim Wise’s article but from my social interactions on a day to day basis as well that we do not live in a post racial society. Those who believe otherwise usually come off as naïve or blind to what’s really going on in the world we live in. Even when presented with the evidence regarding racial inequities which show that these prejudices have been infused into our systems there are still those people who believe we have reached the point of a post racial society (Wise 18). I always knew there were those people who felt differently about the racial progress we have seen but it wasn’t until reading this article that I realized the scale of this epidemic.