Running head: DO ALL LIVES MATTER INCLUDE BLACK LIVES 1
Do All Lives Matter Include Black Lives?
Michaiah Anderson
Houston Baptist University
DO ALL LIVES MATTER INCLUDE BLACK LIVES 2
Specific Purpose: To show the audience that All Lives Matter can’t matter until Black Lives
Matter in society as well.
Thesis Statement
Black Lives Matter isn’t just a phrase we find ourselves shouting and believing when it comes to
Black lives being taken, but it is a meaning that we are trying to spread to such a prejudice and
discriminating world we live in.
Introduction
Attention Grabber: You wake up at 7:30 am, scroll on TikTok until 7:40-45… Finally, you roll out
of bed, look yourself in the mirror, do your daily affirmation, you hug your mom before you leave
and tell her “I love you, make it a great day.” You finally get in your car, turn your radio on. You
approach a red light, you make a right turn, you drive perfectly for 2 miles, and all of a sudden you
