Synthèse LLCE: ART AND PUBLIC DEBATES DEBATING SKILLS

« ART AND PUBLIC DEBATES DEBATING SKILLS How does the debate in art contribute to the fight against social injustices in the United States of America ? TABLE OF CONTENTS 1- 12 Angry Men, Lumet Sidney (1957) 2- To kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (1960) 3- The Green Mile, Stephen King (1996) 4- When They See Us, Ava Duvernay (2019) 5- Statue of George Floyd, Chris Carnabucci (2021) 6- « I have a dream », Martin Luther King Jr.

(1963) 10th juror I will like hell quite down.

There is not one of them, not one who’s any good.

Now don't you hear that.

? Not one : Now let me lay this out for you ignorant bastards . (to the 9th Juror) You at the window, you’ re so goddamned smart.

We’ re facing a danger here.

Don’t you know it ? These people are multiplying five times as fast as we are wild animals.

They’re against us, they hate us they want to destroy us.

That’s right. (to 6th Juror) Don’t look at me like that ! There’s a danger.

For God’s sake we’re living in a dangerous time, and if we don’t watch it, if we don’t smack them down whenever we can, then they are gonna own us.

They’ re gonna breed us out of existence. 6th Juror Ah, shut up ! 10th Juror Now you goddamned geniuses had better listen to me.

They’ re violent, they’re vicious, they’ re ignorant and they will cut us up.

That’s their intent.

To cut us up. (to 7th Juror) I ‘m warning you.

This boy, this boy on trial here.

We’ve got him.

That’s one at least.

I say get him before his kind gets us.

I don’t give a goddamn about the law.

Why should I ? They don’ t.

Now I ‘m telling you. 2ND Juror I ‘ve heard enough.

Now you just stop all this. 12 Angry Men (Act.2), Lumet Sidney (1957) When They See Us, Ava Duvernay (2019) Statue of George Floyd, Chris Carnabucci (2021) « Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today my friends – so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed : « We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

» I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification – one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will.... »