Blog post 10

I think that an important exigence that needs to be addressed is the percentage of blacks in our prisons today. African Americans make up ten to twelve percent of the population but inhibit nearly forty percent of our jail’s inmates. To many people’s surprise, statistics show that white folks admit to and use five times the amount of illicit drugs than that of black folks. An officer is also six times as likely to incarcerate a black man over a white man. My rhetoric outreach would call to law enforcement officers, judges and those in the court system, and even members of the political parties to make strides to end the prejudice that still stands against our African American community. I want to make an assemblage of a Cops episode that portrays the scenes of two crimes side by side. One side would have a white cop on call, driving to the crime. On the other, the same picture would be pictured except a black cop on call instead. The suspects, of opposite races than those of the cops, will have been accused of the same crime. I want my project to reflect the differences in treatment from police according to the color of their suspect’s skin. This constrains my rhetoric project to a true crime genre. In an inartistic way, this assemblage will give facts and data about the situation, rarely involving opinion a narrator. This problem is one that plays on the overlying epidemic of racism that still serves as an issue today.