Rhetorical Analysis: The All Lives Matter

The All Lives Matter supporters believe that black people who were killed recently showed violence against the policemen and they were not innocents. The president of Amherst College Republicans Robert Lucido responses, “First, the Black Lives Matter group was originally titled ‘F--- the Police.’ The organizers of the Awareness week claimed that every 28 hours a black man is killed by a law enforcement officer, but they never mentioned that a law enforcement officer is killed every 48 hours in the line of duty. The organizers may have thought it clever, but such a title is utterly shameful” (Lucido). The author uses ethos by showing facts in his response that illustrates the opposite of what Black Lives Matter group claimed; however, these

words could be meant to call black people as layers. In the case of using the title “F*** the Police” makes African Americans seem to be violent group which claimed to be peaceful, but they seek to kill polices officers in order to take over control of the streets and also to retaliate as well. Despite to the fact that the author says police officers also get killed every 48 hours in the line of duty, the author points out that African Americans use the good people’s emotions by pretending to be nonviolent when they represent themselves on the media, but they are killing men of the law with out mentioning the crimes they have made. African Americans could be retaliating quietly without presenting that to the media, so they can be appeared on TV and newspapers like they were always non-violent group and the policemen are the killers to their own people. The latter of Lucido shows black people as thug and criminals without using the words. He claims that black people should be shameful of their action instead of being in the street protesting against the government while they are breaking the and pretending to be discriminated.