King outlined the reasons for these methods in his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” He stated that nonviolent protest was used because it dramatized the issues of segregation and discrimination that blacks faced, and thereby gained the public’s sympathy (Letter…Birm. Jail, 2). This method then required nonviolent action by blacks and also needed a violent white reaction to create the drama of good versus evil within media in order to create sympathy for blacks (Letter…Birm. Jail, 2). With this added media outrage they hoped to in turn get more legislation passed and enforced.
The black power movement hindered from the blacks to achieve their aim more then it helped them. Although some campaigns such as the NAACP welcomed black and white members arguing that co-operation would make the movement stronger, there were other groups that prevented the blacks from achieving their aim and gaining rights because black movement groups such as the Nation Of Islam and SNCC introduced the use of self-defence, heritage not to work with whites and criticism which hindered the black civil rights. One reason why the black power movement hindered black civil rights was because of the use of self-defence and violence. Malcolm X believed that self-defence was a more powerful weapon than love and forgiveness. He advocated gun ownership for black Americans.
Ethos on the other hand refers to an appeal to authority or character; this is the idea that a fact is given more credence when associated with a certain person. In “Message to Grassroots” Malcolm predominately uses Pathos to support his rise for action in the black community. He uses Ethos to garner hatred in the people he’s speaking to, and then he points them toward the government. You can see this in the first paragraph, “… you represent a person who poses a serious problem for America because you are not wanted” (Malcolm 1). He then gives them a person to hate, the white man, “We have this in common: We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator….
Describe two significant ways in which the media can weaken and marginalise a particular ethnic group, with specific reference to the article. What responsibilities do the media have in improving race relations? In contemporary society media plays an important part of everyday life as it is influential towards all people within society. Its role is powerful as it influences people’s opinions and actions towards certain matters such as ethnic groups and racism. Racism can be defined as “discrimination against certain populations because they are considered to be inherently inferior” (Arvanitakis, 83).
Washington preferred a gradual incline of black involvement and acceptance, whereas DuBois preferred immediate direct action. DuBois tried to get African Americans to be involved in politics for this would be the only way their freedoms would be maintained and that could gain influence in society. Carter Woodson states that without political involvement, they would “lose ground in the basic things of life,” (Doc I). DuBois says that the original democratic system does not exist anymore; a caste system replaced it with the white men on top, who try to diminish the civil liberties of those below them, the blacks (Doc F). Dubois’s solution is that African Americans must constantly fight and argue for what they desire in order to ever gain their rights (Doc E).
Power to the People - Thoughts on the Black Panther Party and Black Power Movement. During the civil rights movement, local whites harassed the peaceful and non-violent marchers while the police turned a blind eye and arrested the activists as troublemakers. This trend was becoming too much and what they needed was some form of liberation, that came through the agile activities of Stokely Carmichael and the Black Panther Party. Following the influence of Malcom X towards the end of his life, the Black Panthers Party was formed to protect local communities from police brutality and racism. It was not all about violence as most people relate the group to.
For many Chicano activists, the Black civil rights struggle was crucial in persuading them to pursue the path that eventually led them to the movimiento. Mexican American youth excitedly discussed the plight of their people, whom they knew had been repressed. Three reasons accounted for activists to take the path to politicization: One, the media and white liberals were not as interested in Mexican American issues as they were in the abhorrent treatment of Blacks. Two, the extent of racism and oppression was either denied or masked over by an overly optimistic appraisal of access to the U.S. opportunity structure in the Mexican American era of civil rights. Three, a common notion was that the Mexican Americans did not suffer from the same racism to which Black Americans did.
Especially in today's society, there is a dire over emphasis of the media. Television and other types of media display certain lifestyles and ideas and then the public automatically conforms. The media was a prime culprit in so much black people conking their hair in Malcolm X's
the black people in America suffered from the police interference in their lives and were even imprisoned even though they were not guilty. It is obvious that every human being has dreams. Martin Luther King had a dream too, which was seeing the world in peace and having equality rule the world. He dreamt about having brotherhood and seeing black and whites “sit down together at the tale of brotherhood”. To conclude, black people all over the world, wherever they live were for a long time victim of racism for their skin color.
Human rights should be an important foreign policy issue everywhere, because the way people should be treated is important. If this was a big foreign policy issue, countries would actually care about how they treated their people for they don’t want hassle and ridicule for the international community. That could potentially create them to loose trading partners. The promotion of human rights around the globe should be a vital US foreign policy. The US does a lot of business around the world.