Big Tymers

First of all, I would like to thank ya'll for hosting this dinner tonight. I am honored to be here tonight back in Texas. Why ya'll must be crazy to want to listen to little ole me but I'm thankful you do! Now before you get back to enjoying that steak, I do have a few things that I would like to say to all of you, and I would like to begin with some famous words:

“Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we’re free at last” Martin Luther King spoke these monumental words on the steps of the Lincoln memorial, and approximately 40 years later, we still have to dream of freedom. African Americans have constantly fought for freedom from racial discrimination and even though major steps have been taken, racial profiling keeps discrimination alive and in full effect. As an African American female, I have witnessed first hand how blacks are beaten by police officers. Racial profiling is so common in Texas it is almost the norm. Martyria. Racial profiling is a crutch for those with power to radically abuse it. [We must end racial profiling. We must put a stop to the harassment of people by the police just because they have a different skin color. abode] That is why tonight I would like to tell you about a bill I am supporting. It is a bipartisan bill that all of my colleagues in Washington support, democrats and republicans alike. The End Racial Profiling Act bans the use of racial profiling by law enforcement. The act threatens to remove federal funding if the ban is ignored and gives the victims of racial profiling the legal tools to hold agencies accountable Anacephalaeosis . Now I realize that there are concerns about the threat of terrorism so in some extreme cases, where the lives of our families are at stake, some degree of profiling may be necessary. As the President has said, we cannot forget the lessons of 9/11.

In the vast majority of profiling cases, terrorism has not been an issue. If you haven't lived the situation first hand, you cannot really understand the severity of racial profiling. Depending on your community you may have reasons to be afraid of being pulled over after 10:00 pm, especially on the weekend. The main reason why you white folks are afraid of being pulled over is because you can get stuck with that treacherous acronym, DWI (also known as Driving While Intoxicated), which has very painful penalties attached to it. Blacks are more afraid of being stuck with the charge of DWB. If you're not familiar with this acronym, this means Driving While Black. Yes, DWB is a common problem blacks face in society today. The stereotype of a black man or black woman in possession of drugs is pervasive and it is wrong. According to an article published by Heather MacDonald in the New York City Journal, "The war on drugs immediately became a war on minorities on the highways and off". In America’s most recent history, racial profiling has created the crime of DWB. Take the example of California native Sam Williams who was just recently stopped for DWB. When he was pulled over the officer said it was "because someone in the back seat fidgeted," but later the officer claimed that there was "suspicious activity Clause." Very often Blacks are in a a lose-lose situation against the police. They lose if they commit a crime and they lose if they don’t. They may even lose if they try to prevent a crime. For example in 1995, Michael Cox, an African American cop in street clothes, responded to a call that a police officer had been shot. As he was climbing a fence in pursuit of a suspect, a white cop who arrived on the scene after him hit him from behind with a flashlight. When Cox fell to the ground, other white cops beat him badly. When they realized Cox was a police officer, the perpetrators fled, leaving Cox lying on the freezing street without medical attention. Those guilty of racial profiling, those who are suppose to protect us, all too often, punish the innocent, brutalize the innocent, and harass the innocent, instead of treating them as the innocent. diacope] [If we choose not to end racial profiling, the real criminals may slip through and escape punishment. descriptio] As all of you may have watched on television a few years ago, in New York an unarmed black man was shot to death on his doorstep. The man's name was Amadou Diallo. The police had been after a serial rapist when they chose to stop to question Amadou because of his color. When he tried to pull out his wallet, he was shot nineteen times. It was later discovered that they fired 41 times. Several years ago, four men were pulled over by state troopers in New Jersey. CNN described one as being "a top-ranked New York high school basketball player deciding between various college scholarships." The four were headed to tryouts but the troopers opened fire on the van because "it appeared the van was backing up to hit them." Three of the men were hit and in that instant the student's dreams were shattered. The student can never play basketball again because of his wounds. We must put a stop to racial profiling before another person's chances at life and a decent future are taken away.

There have been concerns about terrorism. Would racial profiling have prevented 9/11? Is some profiling necessary in order to weed out potential terrorists? I say in some cases it could be useful. President Bush, who supports the legislation to bar racial profiling, makes an exception for investigations involving terrorism and national security. dicaeologia. Let us follow the President's example.

In conclusion, most law enforcement try to do the right thing, but all too often some cross the line and commit brutal acts against people. Now I know ya'll want to see Congress pass this bipartisan bill. As I have said, both Democrats and Republicans, including the President, support this bill. Thank you for inviting me here to this wonderful dinner, and allowing me to spend time with ya'll. Please leave today with thoughts about what I have said. Please make sure that families of colors feel safe and protected by America's law enforcement. Now get back to eating that delicious meal that sits in front of you folks.

Arrangement:

I. Prove that law enforcement uses racial profiling (pathos-invoke sympathy)
a. police brutality examples
1. Nathaniel Jones beating
2. Cincinnati shooting of an unarmed black man
3. other examples if necessary

II. Terrorism
a. people's concerns (would profiling have prevented 9/11?)
b. In certain cases some profiling may be necessary (Security reasons)

Invention:

-description of the Stop Racial Profiling Act
-work done by the NAACP and the ACLU
-the 14th amendment
-examples of other proposed bills regarding racial profiling
-How Bush barred federal agents
-terrorist issues and articles expressing people's concerns and how they feel racial profiling may be necessary

Here is a description of the legislation our group supports:

Support the "End Racial Profiling Act of 2003"


Amnesty International urges the United States Senate and House of Representatives to support the "End Racial Profiling Act of 2003." This bill is critical to protecting fundamental rights guaranteed to citizens and non-citizens under the U.S. Constitution and international human rights laws and treaties.

According to the U.S. Constitution and international treaties and laws, every person has the fundamental right to equal protection under the law regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin. Racial profiling is an insidious violation of human rights that can affect people in both public and private places - in their homes, or at work, or while driving, or flying, or walking. Racial profiling by law enforcement instills fear and distrust among members of targeted communities, making them less likely to cooperate with criminal investigations or to seek police protection when victimized. Multiple studies have shown that when police focus on race, even as one of several predictive factors, they tend to pay less attention to actual criminal behavior. This is a dangerous trend that can inhibit effective law enforcement and ultimately can endanger the lives of all persons who depends on law enforcement for protection.

Historically, racial profiling in the United States has been viewed as an issue that primarily affects African American, Native American and Latino/Hispanic communities. However, since September 11, 2001, some aspects of law enforcement have led to much more wide spread racial profiling, affecting Arab American, Muslim American, and South Asian American communities, as well as members of other communities perceived to originate from the Middle East. Targeting people for investigation based on arbitrary factors such as their race, religion, ethnicity or national origin is not only an ineffective investigation tactic, it is profoundly unjust.

The End Racial Profiling Act of 2003 would:

Prohibit the use of racial profiling based on race, religion, ethnicity or national origin;
Institute programs to eliminate racial profiling in local, state and federal law enforcement by general prohibition, monitoring tactics, establishing procedures for receiving, investigating and responding to complaints and create procedures to discipline agents who engage in racial profiling;
Allow the Attorney General to withhold grants from law enforcement agencies not complying with the Act and to provide grants to agencies to encourage compliance with the Act;
Mandate that the Attorney General submit an annual report to Congress on racial profiling by federal, state and local law enforcement.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA RECOMMENDATIONS:

Congress should pass the End Racial Profiling Act of 2003.
Congress should urge law enforcement agencies to protect fundamental civil and human rights enumerated in the US Constitution and in international laws and treaties, especially when investigating crimes.
Congress should urge law enforcement agencies to hold accountable officers who deny equal protection under the law to individuals by engaging in racial profiling.

Prothesis: the addition of a letter or syllable to the beginning of a word

I could not find this figure in the SOU.

These are my new words:

Synaloepha: Omitting one of two vowels which occur together at the end of one word and the beginning of another. A contraction of neighboring syllables. (This word do not pertain to the speech)

Synathroesmus:
1.The conglomeration of many words and expressions either with similar meaning.
2. A gathering together of things scattered throughout a speech

Here is my new term and the definition. Examples of them can be found in Bush's State of the Union Address 2004, which is located below.

Repetitio: Repitition of the same words or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines.

These are my new words and their definitions:
Martyria:Confirming something by referring to one's own experience.
Maxim: One of several terms describing short, pithy sayings.
Medela: When you can't deny or defend friends' faults and seek to heal them with good words.

Hysteron Proteron - disorder of time (what should be first isn't)

Icon - a figure which paints the likeness of a person by imagery; a figure of comparison in which a person is held up against the explicit image of another

Indignatio - an exclamation proceeding from deep indignation

I found what I thought were examples of 2 of the 3 figures (icon and indignatio). I put them in the very first post containing the SOU.

These are my new words:

Paragoge:The addition of a lettter or syllable to the end of a word. (This word did not pertain to the speech).

Paralipsis: Stating and drawing attention to something in the very act of pretending to pass it over. A kind of irony.

Parellelism: Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.

descriptio: contains an exposition of the consequences of an act

diacope: repetition of a word with one or more between, usually to express deep feeling

diaeresis: the logical division of a genus into its species; dividing one syllable into two (esp. the pronunciation of two contiguous vowels)