CCCC Vaccine Hesitancy is a Pandemic Essay

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OUTLINE FOR THINK PIECE WITH FULL DRAFTS OF THE INTRODUCTION AND
BACKGROUND SECTIONS: DUE WEEK 4 (Sun. Sept. 20 at 11:59pm)
Your Name
Mr. Fraley
Eng. 1023
Date
Create a Title Here
Introduction ? Write Introduction Below for Week 4
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Establish ethos by showing how your background informs your opinion on the topic
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State thesis ? make clear statement of your stance (opinion) on the subject
For the Introduction, first try to engage your audience ? be careful about asking questions, but
instead offer you own opinion. Asking questions is a weak form of rhetoric unless you answer
the question for your audience right away ? remember ? you are trying to set the stage here ? you
need to offer some interesting personal reason that shows the reader why you are interested or
passionate about this topic and that your opinion is informed by some past experience. End this
section with your thesis statement ? which is really just stating your opinion/stance on the issue.
Background/Controversy ? Write Background Section for Week 4
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Locate one source for information, definitions, historical information ? provide link to
source here
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Locate a second source that establishes a controversy or difference of opinion to yours ?
provide link to source here
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We will discuss how to cite these sources later in Week 5. For this section you may use web
sources, just please DO NOT use Wikipedia for background ? you may use this as a starting
point, but you must use the sources it cites for the actual source below (we will discuss this in
class this week). For information for background, try to find a source that is specifically about
your topic. To show there is a controversy of debate, you might use someone?s blog, or a video,
an article on the web, or even a Facebook post if it can help you establish there is another
opinion opposite to yours.
Arguments (Sub-claims – 3 Reasons for Stance/Opinion) – For Week 4, just try to come up
with three reasons for your opinion and write them below.
There are no rules for giving reasons for your opinion/stance, so the examples below are just to
help guide this thought process. You will need to find three different reasons however:
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Reason 1 ? Maybe use a specific personal experience that informed your opinion/stance
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Reason 2 ? Perhaps you could use another person?s experience as an example of why
your opinion is valid.
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Reason 3 ? Here you might use some experience you witnessed in the media, or in
person, that reflects why you feel the way you do or that gives an example of why your
opinion is valid.
Conclusion ? We will discuss this more in Week 5, for now you can just note any ideas or
proposals you may have – if you don?t have any yet, that?s fine, as we will write a full draft
of this essay in Week 5.
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Restate why your reasons support your argument ? (how the reasons support your
opinion). This reestablishes your Ethos.
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Evaluate how or why your opinion can impact your IDEAL audience ? persuade them to
your cause. Maybe appeal to your audience by using some Pathos here – get your
audience excited or upset by your opinion by making them feel something.
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Propose a Solution ? give your IDEAL audience some specific ways to see how your
opinion could change how they think or act. These solutions or advice should not be
directed at everyone or a general audience ? for instance you would NOT want to say
something like ??we all just need to understand the problem?, or that ?everyone needs to
change? Instead, offer very specific and reasonable ideas that your audience can consider
moving forward. Think of ways to move them to action ? for example, in the Example
Think Piece, the author suggests ways to consider how the phrase ?women of color?
limits her Ideal Audience ? that it is exclusionary to Black women in particular. Then the
author proposes ideas like ? ? A movement (she means the BLM movement) that truly
centers us is led by us and calls out those who marginalize us ? even if it is hard, and
even if it is directed at other women of color.? She also states in the conclusion that? ?we
need more support in politics? or that ?the moment is ours, too. Let?s not just stand up;
we?ve got to stand in the way.?
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Jane Doe
Mr. Fraley
Eng. 1023
Sept. 5, 2020
I?m a Black Woman ? not a ?Woman of Color?
Introduction
As a Black woman in America, I am disrespected far too often and disregarded every day
? like we throw away trash, without any thought. I am the victim of aggressions big and small,
professionally and personally. I experience micro-aggressions that turn to macro-aggressions and
macro-aggressions that people dismiss as not that big of a deal. But they all feel awful to me, and
they feel awful to all of us. Most times we’re just trying to do our jobs, mind our damn business,
take care of our own, and pretty much just live.
But for Black women in America, our lives have never been fair or just. Today, many
BLM protesters are all placed in the same category with all ?people of color,? however the term
“women of color” just doesn’t do it for me.
It isn’t enough to describe the unique experiences of Black women. Our fights and
struggles are not the same as other women. That term has also become a way for white people,
and others who conform to white supremacy, to perform inclusivity by lumping us all together
and checking the box on diversity. And as hard as this truth may be, it also enables other women
from diverse communities and backgrounds to be with us only when it’s convenient. When Black
women are under attack or shouting for folks to recognize, respect and support us, “women of
color” can marginalize us, too. But when you are a Black woman, all aggressions are still
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aggressions. We are marginalized every day, in every way. And we feel hurt when we are thrown
away, expected not to react or feel, not to be human in our response. When you are a Black
woman, you are always a Black woman. When you are a “woman of color,” it’s easier to bow out
when the fire, aimed too often at Black women specifically, gets too hot.
Background and Controversy
According to The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style, the term
“person of colour” goes all the way back to 1796 and was “originally used in reference to lightskinned people of mixed African and European heritage as distinct from full-blooded Africans”
(357). Black communities embraced the term “people of color” in the 1960s, and it was also a
way to show solidarity with other nonwhite groups and demonstrate that white supremacy affects
all of us (Perez). In 1965, many new ?minorities? who were non-white began to immigrate in to
this country, and even Black leaders felt it was important to include these varied groups because
they had commonalities and the new term ?people of color,? grew in popularity (Perez).
According to Perez, more recently, the phrase “people of color” is often used with the intent to be
more inclusive (?People of Color?). But is this always the case?
Arguments (3 reasons for Opinion/Stance using personal stories and examples)
I have an acquaintance who identifies as Latina and is very quick to call me her sister
when it comes to issues that affect “women of color,” but when I am calling for justice
intentionally and specifically for Black women, she is eerily silent until the next time there is a
march and she wants to go take photos and put them on Instagram. In this instance, this
acquaintance is no different than white women who choose to exploit us.
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A few years back, I had a doctor who praised herself for knowing how to treat women of
color (literally marketed herself as a specialist for women of color) but ignored me when I
complained about having excruciating pain for multiple days on end. She then misdiagnosed me
and tried to write me a prescription for tons of medicine I didn’t need. After seeking a second
opinion, I discovered I have fibroids ? a condition that disproportionately affects Black women.
Needless to say, I have a wonderful Black woman doctor now and have never looked back.
In my professional life, we often talk about “students of color” and “people of color” as a
means to be inclusive. But many times, that is not enough. Black children ? specifically Black
girls ? who are being wrongly targeted because of their hair, their appearance, their perceived
loudness and their identities are being disciplined, arrested and suspended at much greater rates
than their white peers. A judge literally refused to release a Black girl from a juvenile detention
center in Michigan for not doing assignments online, an egregious act that demonstrates that
American society doesn’t see Black girls as girls but as criminals from a very early age. What’s
wrong with naming that?
Conclusion (Restates why argument is important for audience to consider and Proposes
some alternatives or solutions)
If you mean Black people but you say people of color, you should ask yourself why it is
that you’re not naming us. If you use women of color as a way to not say Black women, or if you
identify as a woman of color and you’re silent about Black women, ask yourself why. Don’t “all
lives matter” me as a Black woman. I don’t need temporary allyship or apologies. I need
disruption right now. As part of the national reckoning on racial justice (which I hope to be more
than full of actors, but the promise of meaningful actions), it is also time for a revolution that
truly centers Black women. It’s time to normalize our lives, our experiences, our talents, our
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successes and our failures. America has not and unfortunately will not take responsibility for
tossing away Black women at every turn. The judge in Michigan who jailed a Black girl for not
doing homework will not apologize for causing her trauma, even though she is free.
Disregarded. Disrespected. Lives tossed away. Every signal, image, and experience is
meant to teach us that we mean nothing, that our lives don’t matter and that we should just accept
our oppressed fate in this country.
That means that we’ve got to keep pushing and being who we are and showing the next
generation that representation more than matters, it incrementally moves America’s
consciousness, whether folks like it or not. And if we’re really moving the needle on justice, then
we will get to a place where we will stop celebrating the firsts for Black women and normalize
the many. A movement that truly centers us is led by us and calls out those who marginalize us
? even if it is hard, and even if it is directed at other women of color. We have to continue to
demand that those who “of color” us also start to protect us; support our leadership in politics,
professionally and in personal spaces; and respect Black women as smart, incredible, unique,
beautiful people with dignity. It also means that our fight for justice, though it includes Black
men, is also not about their toxic masculinity.
And let’s be real clear: Black women are always at the front of movements, not just
moments. We vote in record numbers, showing up to save a country that does not save us. We
were the backbone of the Civil Rights Movement, and we show up to your women’s marches
even when you exclude us. We build, we organize, we create, we lead, we protect, we push, we
keep it all the way real, and we leave it all on the line, including risking our own lives to save
others. But it’s time that our hard work benefits us, too. We should be proud to be Black and not
hide behind other women of color or white women’s activism. I’m making trouble for those who
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dismiss and “of color” us, and those who have the power to change it but choose to do nothing.
Black women: This moment is ours, too. Let’s not just stand up; we’ve got to stand in the way.
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Works Cited
The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style (PDF). 2005. Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt. p. 356.
Perez, Efren. ??People of Color? Are Protesting: Here?s What You Need to Know About this
New Identity.

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