One of our first assignments in this class in was creating a letter to address a current issue in our country that our future president has to take in special account to fix. This program was run by KPBS and whoever had the best letter out of all of the ones submitted were invited to watch the second presidential election. Sadly, none of us won because the competition was nation-wide so there were bound to be much better writers out there.
Subject
My subject was systematic racism and police brutality in the United States. Every year black people are beat and killed unjustly with little to no repercussions to their oppressor. Last year 346 blacks in 2015 and so far 234 this year. Many people say that the media only shows black people getting killed not other races like whites. Although it is statistically true that whites are killed more than blacks by cops, 31% of the black people were armed while 83% of whites were armed.