He believes and he wants all the people to believe that America will finally take the role of leading the world into a bright future, with the help of its incomparable democratic tradition, its progresses in science and technology and military affairs and its people’s hard efforts. In order to perfectly address his ideas, he makes use of many rhetorical devices. Being faced with the terrible Financial Crisis, the loss of Public confidence, Obama makes his address a horn to inspire Public confidence, a warranty to get democracy power, and a banner to recall America dream. He tries to make his people believe that America and American spirit would conquer the serious economic situation, and change it into a more prosperous country. Both of them are addressing their speech when America is in tough situation.
However, other analysts say that identifying oneself with multiple races would make it harder for obtaining race data to determine the widespread of racism. Rodriguez quotes political scientist Robert C. Smith who states that Obama would not have a political career if he had identified himself as a mixed race in his early political career in Chicago where he was labeled “not black enough.” Smith also mentions that many black people would have felt betrayed by Obama if he had not
He says “put their hands on the arc of history and bend it” in reference to his audience. The “arc of history” is an abstract noun, But Obama describes it in context with a proper noun, developing the technique further, allowing his thoughts to synchronise with those of the audience. The fact that they can bend “The arc of history” to shape a better future is a conclusion to his argument on the power of democracy, the power that America holds dear. At this point, Obama is starting to gain the support of his worldwide audience; the
All US citizens had the right to vote, according to the federal law. But some racist states tried their hardest to stop black Americans from voting. They did this by making black people sit a hard literacy test, which was highly unlikely they will pass. This was simply because their education was of a poor quality due to their school being given very little in comparison to the white schools. They also just threatened them not to vote, which was successful because it frightened them away.
Segregation After the civil war in the USA, the African Americans gain “equal” rights. But the 14th amendment in 1868 (Absolute equality of the two races before the law) didn’t include “social rights” which meant that they didn’t get much choices in society, like choosing where you wanted to sit on a bus. This still made the African Americans feel inferior, knowing that within their home town the “whites” had the choices, and actual freedom. Blacks responded to their situation in 4 ways as their situation began to worsen from 1877. They would co-operate with any willing whites, migrate to the North or West, protest politically and would follow accommodationism.
By reading the principal’s speech, Richard was saying what the white power wanted him to say and to Richard this would be giving in to the very thing he hated so much. Richard was willing to leave school without a diploma instead of this. White people alienated Richard from his environment because he did not accept the way of life that other black people did. Richard’s relatives never understood Richard and because of this he was alienated from his family and his own people. Shorty is the young black boy who gets beat by the white people and jokes about it.
Saint Paul’s challenge is to go against the common belief in the world, and in the beginning, Francois Peinaar did go against what he thought about Nelson Mandela. Most of the nation, namely the native black South Africans, liked Mandela but the Afrikaners and Francois did not like him because they feared being out of power of the government. Francois did not change himself to what people thought about Mandela but instead changed himself into a new way of thinking and slowly made other people see why he trusted the president. The poem Invictus talks about how no matter what is thrown at you, you get right back up. This is directly connected to Francois and his team, because they go up against immeasurable odds just to win the world cup, uniting the country.
The black power movement hindered from the blacks to achieve their aim more then it helped them. Although some campaigns such as the NAACP welcomed black and white members arguing that co-operation would make the movement stronger, there were other groups that prevented the blacks from achieving their aim and gaining rights because black movement groups such as the Nation Of Islam and SNCC introduced the use of self-defence, heritage not to work with whites and criticism which hindered the black civil rights. One reason why the black power movement hindered black civil rights was because of the use of self-defence and violence. Malcolm X believed that self-defence was a more powerful weapon than love and forgiveness. He advocated gun ownership for black Americans.
Invisible Reject In Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, the black narrator struggles to achieve visibility and find identity in a white society. Ultimately, the narrator finds that the only way he can realize his identity is not by placing himself within white institutions but in fact reflecting on his perpetual rejection from them. At the start of the novel, he strived to win respect by being obedient and getting good grades in school in order to go to college. However, despite receiving a scholarship to attend college, he failed to break through the social constraints imposed upon him as a black man in a white-dominated society. Even upon receiving his scholarship, gifted black students were forced to participate in the Battle Royale, a spectacle of black de-humanization.
The second text, “Black History Month”, is written by Eric Holder (EH). This text is more negative towards the theme and it states that there still are racial issues, consequently that people do not talk to each other about race. EH thinks that conversations about race will help USA to achieve a future where all people are equally valued. The third text, “The Obsession over Race Continues”, is written by Walter Backstrom (WB).The text is, just like text one, subjective because the reader sees the things from WB’s point of view. It is negative towards the theme and it states that people are obsessed with race.