ASSIGNMENT | Black Americans and Systematic Racism in the United States

Use logos, pathos, and ethos to sell your proposal.  That means logical, feasible solutions, supporting evidence and statistics that the problem is real and severe. 

It also means appealing to the common emotions and values that you share with your audience: shock, concern, fairness, equality, compassion, direct appeal to the health and well-being of your audience.

And present yourself as credible and authoritative: solid cited research, personal experience, testimony from those affected by the problem or who demonstrate reasons that your proposal will succeed.

• Identify PRACTICES OR ACTIONS that need to change, stop, or develop.

Identify POLICIES OR LAWS that need to be changed, removed, or established.

Cover all the angles: who needs to do what by when and how it can be done.

• Convince your audience that your proposal is a good one then PERSUADE them to take action.  Issue a call to immediate, specific, and do-able action.

• List some of the proposals you plan to include in your paper.  Then get together with someone and do the following:
• Review your list of proposals.  You should have as part of your proposal to raise awareness.  HOW will you do this?  What would be the most effective and successful way to raise awareness?
• Your task is to get your audience not only to believe in your proposal, but to also TAKE ACTION.  Ask each other: what would it take to get YOU to do one of these items on your list of proposals?
• Look at the big, sweeping solutions that you propose.  What STEPS can you take to get there?
• If your proposal requires money, where will it come from and what will it take to get it?
• What objections can you anticipate?  What will you say to defend your proposal?
• Brainstorm to identify any other proposals you can think of to solve or minimize the problem.

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Black Americans and Systematic Racism in the United States
Disparities between the African Americans and the Native Americans continue to be witnessed in different areas of the economy. The discriminative practices are especially as a result of policies and discriminative laws in different states. Although the establishment of the Equality Act and the Civil Rights Act was meant to improve equality by advocating for the rights of the minority, little progress seems to have been realized as African Americans continue to be marginalized. The legislative practices and policies have to be built into the fundamental system of the country in sectors like the education,…