Advocacy Messages

As I perused campaign slogans, I found quite a few that were inspiring and many I have heard of before and brought back memories of the commercials I used to see.

One in particular has transformed a bit over the past thirty years and has morphed from“A mind is a terrible thing to waste to “A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but a wonderful thing to invest in.”I think this slogan makes its point and is self explanatory. They not urge to invest money to help students who would not normally get the opportunity to attend college but goes further to say that we as a community need to make a personal investment that requires commitment to help our communities support and encourage students to go to college.  

“Maybe is all you need to find out more” is an ad campaign about autism awareness and encourages parents to seek help and describes behaviors such as playing repetitively with an object, not talking, and avoiding eye contact as signs of autism that should not be ignored because early intervention is critical for improving developmental outcomes in children.

The last two ads I chose to include because they impact my community and our future generations.

This ad encourages young men to pull up their pants because quite frankly, I think it’s idiotic and makes no sense. The ad says that they are negatively impacting their futures, portrays an image of crime and poor education and no one will be willing to hire them with that type of image.

The last one I feel is so profound because although we passionately protest about how black lives matter when it comes to others killing black people, very little is said or done to prevent black on black crime which is an epidemic in this country and unfortunately, more blacks are killed by their race than by other ethnicities, but the same can be said about whites as well which is that they are also killed more often by their own race. I truly believe that black lives matter but all the way across the board and if we are going to advocate saving lives, let’s use our advocacy efforts to save them all.

References

http://www.adcouncil.org/Our-Campaigns/Health/Autism-Awareness

http://www.politifact.com/florida/article/2015/may/21/updated-look-statistics-black-black-murders/

http://www.adcouncil.org/Our-Campaigns/Health/Autism-Awareness

http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/blacklivesmatter.asp

http://www.mindnotbehind.com/