African American Informative Speech

Introduction

You are an African American on your way out the United States for a business trip and the plane crashes. You look around for survivors, but you see no one and hear no one. First thing you do is call for help, but you get no responses. Then as you look over you see a flag: red background, a blue x, and on that x you see white stars.

“Our idea is simply to combine the present battle-flag with a pure white standard sheet; our Southern Cross, blue on a red field, to take the place on the white flag that is occupied by the blue union in the old United States flag, or the St. George's cross in the British flag. As a people, we are fighting to maintain the Heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race; a white flag would thus be emblematical of our cause”( Mikkelson).

Immediately you realize the flag represents a group called the Ku Klux Klan, and based on your knowledge “the KKK is a secret organization of White Protestant Americans, mainly in the South, who use violence against Black people, Jewish people, and other minority

groups” (Dictionary.com Unabridged). Then you start to wonder if you are about to die and start panicking, but you see a man walking toward you and wondering what he is about to do. He asks “Are you lost?” and you respond “yes, where am I?” The man tells you that you are in predominantly white community, and gives you a warning. He says, “Follow me now young man” What you did not know is, is that your adventure of survival was about to begin.
Survive
Step one: As you are about to enter this secret society of racist people, you are to remain calm and not show any weakness or a sign of discomfort (Koritt). The key of staying calm keeps you from being a bigger target than you already are, and you showing weakness would make them think that they can just run right over you and manipulate into doing things. Do not let them get to you and trigger your emotions because by being emotional you are giving them a real reason to attack you. To show signs of comfort give them a lot of compliments to show them that you are not worried and are a positive person (Koritt).
Step two: When meeting new people be sure not to be loud or fit the stereotype of a black person, and do not talk Ebonics (Jenson). When greeting people be sure to say “Hello, my name is (…) how are you today.” Make sure to never mock, or be childish; instead, be proper, walk correctly, and dress appropriately.
Step Three: In this step you should be looking for a way to escape or get help off the island, but in discreetly you do not want to show the people that you are trying to get away from them because that is a sign of disrespect.

The first to coming up with amazing ways to get off the island is to deep breathing, count to ten, think great thoughts, slow down and think things clearly (Rainbow). Do not use smoke or flares because even though you might capture the attention of nearby aircrafts you will alert the group. Try looking for wood or strong trees to cut down, but go deep into the forest and search for trees away from the group. Use the trees to kind of shape a boat or something you can get on and float into the ocean. Think of the future with this process; you need to pack flares, extra wood for repairs or even starting fires to create smoke, and most importantly start gathering food and

water.
Step four: Make sure you work three times as hard now, so that way you won’t be a suspect of any suspicious behavior. Since you are planning an escape plan you have to work harder especially in those areas of the materials that you need for your trip for finding help and finding your way home. You actually already should have been working twice as hard because their group despises black people.
Step five: Find that one person that can keep secrets and has everything a person needs and information about the environment. What you want to do is ask by that person if they know where the nearest island with people living on it nearby. Be very discreet because you do not want it to seem like you are trying to escape, because the person with the information be the most to snitch and would tell on you in a heartbeat. Then ask that person if they would escape and survive and find the nearest island. That should show you if you are really ready to leave or gather more supplies make your escape plan a successful one. Then tell that person I would never try to leave, and play it off by saying simple fears: “I would hate to be in the ocean with sharks and fish”, “I wouldn’t last a day out there”, and “I would never leave this community that would be a betrayal”.
Step Six: At this point everything should be ready to go, and you should be out of there. Make sure you escape on a busy day that everyone would be distracted.