Persuasive Speeches: Racism

LI: To write a speech that persuade others to think the way you do.

                                                                 Raicsm

Greetings everyone, I have felt passionate about a topic that has been spoken about for many years. Racism. In the past, black and white people didn’t get along, this was especially in places like the USA where what you could do or where you could go depended on the colour of your skin.


In September the 7th 1921, during the touring in Napier. New Zealand won 9-8. When this story was published, the manager says that he did not deny that his players had been upset because of the saying of the crowd.


On August the 28th in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr delivered his “I have a dream” speech, was a powerful speech that talks about racism, freedom, and american civil rights. Did you know that those 4 words is well known as a phrase in African American’s history.



In 1982, New Zealand first played South Africa. Although the All Blacks team had really good players some of them weren’t allowed to go because they were Maori like George Nēpia. 160,00 people signed a petition to have a white All Blacks team instead of having a mixed of colour team. Their slogan was called ‘no Maoris, no tour’.


Have you ever felt excluded because of your skin-colour? Well, we all have experienced it in some way. You may know Rosa Parks as the“first lady of civil rights”. Rosa Parks sat at the front of a city bus, refusing to give up her sit up to a caucasian male. It wasn’t fair how they were having separate sides of white and black people. Rosa put up a fight, but didn’t win. She was forced to get off, and was taken to jail because she kept on refusing to give up her seat to a white person, so then they arrested her. How would you feel if that happened to you?

This week we had our speech competition on Tuesday. On Monday we had a speech off between 7 people. Only 3 people from that 7 was able to present their speech at our school's speech competition. The 3 winners were Mele, Jack and Marieta. But before we presented our speeches we all chose a speech topic to present in front of the class or in a group. I decided to present my speech in a group because I wasn't that confident to show my speech to the class. The speech topic that I decided to go with was Racism because that is one of my favorite speech topics and because I was influence to do a racism speech.