Monday 29 August 2011

American Civil Liberties Union advert

ACLU wants to stop discrimination by creating this ad.
I did not know that the right person was Charles Manson, a man with a criminal mind. The fact that Martin Luther King is 75 times more likely to be stopped by the police is shocking. I thought we'd passed that time period already. This is clearly not the case. It makes me pretty much angry how this can happen. A bad guy won't easily get stopped by the police while he has done so many bad things. I get the idea that they would even arrest a black person for murder when all the evidence available shows that there was a white guy who had murdered! This ad might be exaggerated and dramatized but there is truth in it. They want you to feel angry and shocked for the fact how this ever could happen. By using percentages it even looks worse. 80% is a lot! They really want to activate you to support their organization and I think they bring their story in the right way. The pictures will attract and interest the readers, then they get the desire to get to know more and finally,  exactly what ACLU wants, they can activate the readers to change this situation. Although, I don't think you, as a normal citizen, can change much about this. You will not be able to influence the police. The police (and the government itself) will have to change their way of acting. This should not longer happen.

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