8. Rev. D. A. Bullock organized a slow-down of the major freeways in Detroit to

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8. Rev. D. A. Bullock organized a slow-down of the major freeways in Detroit to protest the Emergency Financial Manager in 2013. Below is a partial transcript of D.A. Bullock’s 3/14/13 interview on The Rachel Maddow show. Recontruct Bullock’s analogy and evaluate it according to the criteria.

MADDOW: You are looking at footage from Detroit, Michigan. This is not slowed down to look unnaturally slow looking. Activists in Detroit for the fifth time are taking to the freeways as of yesterday to drive super slowly during rush hour to protest the impending takeover of Michigan`s largest city. Michigan Republican Governor Rick Snyder made it official today on his order Detroit will be giving up the ability to elect their local officials in favor of a state appointed overseer who can just do with the city whatever he wants. Joining us now is one of the activists behind the freeway protests in Detroit this week pastor David Bullock. He`s the national spokesperson of the Change Agent Consortium. He`s the president of the Detroit chapter of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition and of the Highland Park Chapter of the NAACP. Pastor Bullock, thank you very much for your time tonight. REV. DAVID BULLOCK, CHANGE AGENT CONSORTIUM SPOKESPERSON: Thank you. MADDOW: Do you intend to keep going with these protests, this type of protest specifically now or other kinds of protests now that an emergency manager officially is taking over Detroit? BULLOCK: Indeed. We intend to escalate our protests. Rosa Parks sat down in the wrong seat on the right bus and disobeyed a law because it violated her human dignity. We are on freeways, on the right freeway going the wrong speed, because the law emergency management violates our dignity. And our only recourse at this point is protests, it`s rallies, it`s civil disobedience. But we will not turn around and go back in the corner. We`re going to fight for our rights.

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Michigan Republican Governor Rick Snyder made it official today on his order Detroit will be giving up the ability to elect their local officials in favor of a state appointed overseer who can just do with the city whatever he wants. Joining us now is one of the activists behind the freeway protests in Detroit this week pastor David Bullock. He`s the national spokesperson of the Change Agent Consortium. He`s the president of the Detroit chapter of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition and of the Highland Park Chapter of the NAACP.  We intend to escalate our protests. Rosa Parks sat down in the wrong seat on the right bus and disobeyed a law because it violated her human dignity. We are on freeways, on the right freeway going the wrong speed, because the law emergency management violates our dignity. And our only recourse at this point is protests, it`s rallies, it`s civil disobedience. But we will not turn around and go back in the corner. We`re going to fight for our rights.

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