Rhetorical Analysis Of There's A 'Ferguson' Near You
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The first article, ”There’s a ”Ferguson” near you” published in USA Today in 2014 by Jesse L. Jackson, a African-American civil rights activist, has an impartial approach to the subject of the racial unrest in Ferguson, but at the same time urges the reader to call for justice not only at Ferguson but also everywhere else. Jackson has her starting point at Michael Brown, a teenager killed by the police for causes that are still unknown. Slowly Jackson goes up the ladder of abstraction from Michael Brown to other black men, to Ferguson and at last to all the suburban and rural parts of America. Jackson finds the cause of the conflict to be the deterioration of these parts of America. She claims that independently of the racial demographics of Ferguson, it is undergoing a typical development for small communities - It has a hard working middle class and a growing lower class. Jackson blames this on politicians and tells that both Republicans and Democrats should be focusing on development and not just containment of the suburban and rural communities. She underlines that there are many problems in America right now, for example the rising poorness, high unemployment and inadequate investment in the youth. At last she call on her audience …show more content…
About the protesters he comments on them stealing and destroying property – the same arguments as in text one. While he claims that the highly militarized teams used to control the crowds are inappropriate to domestic police work As well as that, Lowry criticizes the police force for handling the press badly, giving examples of improper tear-gassing and arrests. However, he refutes his claim by opposing the critic of the military gear, by telling that riot police should not be “cute and cuddly” regardless of their uniforms. Lowry ends his article by claiming that the formula for calm in Ferguson is simply to let justice take its course – a claim he does not seem to substantiate in any
The first article, ”There’s a ”Ferguson” near you” published in USA Today in 2014 by Jesse L. Jackson, a African-American civil rights activist, has an impartial approach to the subject of the racial unrest in Ferguson, but at the same time urges the reader to call for justice not only at Ferguson but also everywhere else. Jackson has her starting point at Michael Brown, a teenager killed by the police for causes that are still unknown. Slowly Jackson goes up the ladder of abstraction from Michael Brown to other black men, to Ferguson and at last to all the suburban and rural parts of America. Jackson finds the cause of the conflict to be the deterioration of these parts of America. She claims that independently of the racial demographics of Ferguson, it is undergoing a typical development for small communities - It has a hard working middle class and a growing lower class. Jackson blames this on politicians and tells that both Republicans and Democrats should be focusing on development and not just containment of the suburban and rural communities. She underlines that there are many problems in America right now, for example the rising poorness, high unemployment and inadequate investment in the youth. At last she call on her audience …show more content…
About the protesters he comments on them stealing and destroying property – the same arguments as in text one. While he claims that the highly militarized teams used to control the crowds are inappropriate to domestic police work As well as that, Lowry criticizes the police force for handling the press badly, giving examples of improper tear-gassing and arrests. However, he refutes his claim by opposing the critic of the military gear, by telling that riot police should not be “cute and cuddly” regardless of their uniforms. Lowry ends his article by claiming that the formula for calm in Ferguson is simply to let justice take its course – a claim he does not seem to substantiate in any