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A Critique on Julia Craven’s Informative Text: “Black Activists Have Some Advice For New Protesters Pushing Back Against Donald Trump”

According to the text, entitled “Black Activists Have Some Advice For New Protesters Pushing Back Against Donald Trump”, which discusses how the election of Donald Trump has spurred a number of new protesters who likely would have not taken in any part of politics aside from voting every four years. Millions of people across the country recently took part in women’s marches after Trump’s inauguration. The anti-Trump, the Movement for Black lives, an alliance of activist groups pursuing to mend the lives of black Americans.  As the text, is mostly a claim of value because it focuses on the morals of the different races living in the United States of America who and why they are affected of this sudden change not only in their economy but everyday lives. This claim can be found in the sentence, “They act as a moral compass for the country. They are uplifting. However, it is going to take much more than mobilization to win this fight. We have the incredible task of using 20th-century models of resistance while also creating 21st-century ones that accurately reflect the times we are in. Organizing across movements, the development of networks and information-sharing between groups are central to winning this in the long haul.” It focuses on the changes, lessons, and advices that the  activists with previous experiences may use and be able to share their own knowledge in order to guide those new to this that may not have as much exposure to be able to gain a thing or too. Specifically, the protest movements like Black Lives Matter mainly struggle for civil rights in today's society.

The author portrayed conveyed a very strong message to all the people out there who are looking for hope or those who are ting to gain knowledge about this controversial issue.  Ever since, Donald Trump was inaugurated into office there has been a major change in various communities like the black, indigenous, Muslims, women, LBGTQ the lives of these people have been changed in because e of him. In his earlier days, beginning with his campaigns he has threatened the various lives of these people and even to be running for such a high position he must have the correct etiquette, values, and manners to be able to endure in this position. It is astonishing to be able to see the sudden shift of the citizen’s mindset and what they are doing to be able to help and take part in such because each voice is important and crucial in making a point.

The text in terms of the use of Aristotle’s Appeals was pretty clear and made use of mostly Pathos. This was shown because it mostly appealed to emotion and on how the people are trying to cope up with this tragedy. This was seen in the statement, “I can see the beauty of solidarity and what can happen when people come together, but I caution anyone who would erase the work of fearless black women who have been the face of much of the unapologetic resistance and demand for change we see today. It is these black women whom we should listen to and learn from as we move forward.” This of a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotion connection and response. As aforementioned above, this is text is a claim of value because it concerns what is good or bad, moral or immoral, just or unjust. This can be seen in the sentence, “Create narratives that speak to shared values, are clear about the problem and solution, and that speak to specific audiences ― audiences we’ve long written off as too uneducated and too unwilling to change. Audiences who share a difference of opinion or political belief. Audiences who, before Nov. 8, we thought had too little power to make any real change. Audiences we underestimated and ignored and now must prioritize.”

The text in terms of Logical Fallacy avoided was Anonymous Authority due to the fact that even though most of the text was composed of answers from interviews the author did not forget to always indicate where and who she got this information from. On the other hand, the Logical Fallacy that was committed was Oversimplification because of the exaggeration that every time there are literally thousands of people showing up to the protests that alongside with it black people are being killed. This was mainly seen in the statement, “Furthermore, we need thousands of people to start showing up when black people are killed by police in the same numbers that folks are showing up at these airport protests.”

The text in terms of Intertextuality being used was sequential association because it established a sequence that the text before it was related and as such is a reply. This showed how you could not understand the statement that came before it because you would need to relate or have prior knowledge that involved involving the said issue. This can be seen in the sentence, “The rhetoric of Trump’s administration has sparked a lot of new anger, which I hope encourages even more people to become active in advocating for ALL oppressed people in our society. I hope that more people begin to recognize that our society and country cannot ever become great until people are as upset about the banning of ‘immigrants’ and attacks on the black community as they are upset about Hillary Clinton losing the election.”

Overall, the text highlighted and covered a lot of things that could be used as reason, fact, and value that could be used especially in the youth, the future generation, and hope for a better tomorrow. There is no platform too small to use your voice to be heard, there are many who have done the work for us and with this, it should be studied and applied as necessary to the work being done now. The author could have better improved the coherence and cohesion of their said text and added more information about what she had in mind to the topic as well.The author was very keen and wise to write about such topic and issue that is very controversial this text may aid as a guide for people who are lost. As they say, “Not all those who wander are lost.”

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