Navarre Latchman

Oral Presentation

Topic: Discrimination

Theme: Racial Discrimination

I chose to do a speech because I believe this avenue allows me to convey information about this

Topic in a concise, clear manner that will be quite easily understood by all audiences. This genre

also allows me to deliver the information in a factual, yet thought-provoking fashion.

Additionally, a formal register was used because it sets a serious tone and targets those in

authority that can implement policies to deal with racial discrimination in contexts.

.Speech

Racism is a disgrace to our human race, a sickness, to our already disease ridden society. Would

you define the sky by a cloud? How about the ocean by a drop? No, but society defines who you

are based on the colour of your skin. However, who you truly are is not only skin-deep. Society

has taught us to assign labels, to call these people 'black' and those people 'white' and we have

sadly accepted our own labels as fact. So if you were never given a label, what would you be?

Black? Asian? Indian? You might sit down and choose, like answers on a multiple choice. No, if Commented [S1]: A little unclear.

the world never gave us labels we would all be one, we would all be united. No longer

would we be living in an era where we teach our successors to call them 'Black' people and those

'White' people. Scientists have already concluded that we are all a 'mixing pot' of 'flavours'
which some of us are unable to savour so some of us decided to do the world a 'favor' by creating

a figment of our imaginations known as race, which we use to hate, segregate and discriminate.

So let us end this hate, vaccinate this disease and bury this fatal blunder six feet under. As the

great Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day

live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of

their character." This is quite a powerful statement; however, these expectations have not been

fulfilled. As shown in a study done by researchers at Harvard University which was conducted

from 1989 to 2015, based on the concept of hiring discrimination, they studied upwards of 54000 Commented [S2]: What do you mean?

job applications submitted for more than 25000 job positions. They proceeded to conclude that

on average, "White applicants receive 36% more callbacks than equally qualified African

Americans." Sadly, these individuals have not been judged on their characters or ability but only

on the basis of race. We were not meant to be labelled like groceries on supermarket shelves, no

man can label a creation so diverse, the FDA cannot label our DNA. So why must we hate on

each other and berate our brothers and sisters on their skin colour. We are all interconnected, like

the roots of one tree. One family tree, I like to call Humanity.

Comments: I made some changes but you have to fix some areas. Parts are like a spoken word

piece. Also, you did not quote enough from valid and reliable sources. This is a factual piece.

Get more data. Some areas are a bit confusing. Review.