Malcolm X was a controversial speaker who often used the Constitution as a body of law and appeals to ‘the human condition and universal human rights’ to logically assess the status of African Americans progress in the nation. He also used many emotional appeals to get his point across to diverse audiences who might only understand his desire for African American progress and freedom in terms of their own self-interest, political ideals, morals, and self awareness. In his speech, “The Ballot or the Bullet,” given on April 3, 1964 in Cleveland, Ohio he uses repetition, parallelism, scesis onomaton, antithesis, and metaphor to explain that the Democratic President Johnson, while stating his ideals are pro-African American and “Pro Civil Rights” for African Americans and others, are hypocritical and indeed just as toxic for black progress as the more obvious anti-black sentiments of that period’s Republican constituents who openly thwarted black progress through segregation and voting laws that prevented blacks from casting ballots on their own behalf, miscounting votes, or by discouraging voting altogether. Malcolm X states, “It was the black man’s vote that put the present administration in Washington D.C. Your vote, your dumb vote, your ignorant vote, your wasted vote put in an administration...that has seen
Malcom X did not have the same lifestyle that Martin had the ability to grow up with. As a child he watched his house get burned down by the Klu Klux Klan which filled him with anger and hate towards white people. His father was killed by white supremacists and his mom, in shock from the murder, had to be put into a mental institution which left Malcom living with all family friends. He went to school but felt like the school pet because he was the only black student. He dropped out of school and later started doing drugs which landed him
All the children were split up in foster homes and orphanages. While in school Malcolm had dreams of becoming a lawyer but was told by his teacher he wasn’t smart enough and he should try to become a carpenter. After hearing this Malcolm decided to drop out of school and started working odd jobs and committing various crimes. Malcolm became involved in drugs, gambling, and alcohol. Along with being involved in drugs and alcohol Malcolm and his good friend Malcolm “Shorty” Jarvis became involved with burglary while they were in Boston, Massachusetts.
When he came out of prison he had doubts about his innocence in the matter and was convinced that he was indeed a convict. “Under the whip, under the chain, in the cell...he recognized that he was not an innocent man, unjustly punished” (Hugo 23). Later in his life Jean Val Jean does overcome this and turns out to be a huge benefactor for his community, giving to the poor and providing many jobs. This however is done only with great resistance from society, as they do not accept convicts as normal people. Jean Val Jean had to conceal his identity in order to help people.
Communication, through speech, is a very powerful tool to provoke people to make change. Speeches are used in Presidential campaigns to convince the citizen to favor a certain candidate. Speeches are also used in important events to encourage people to change behavior. The speech that Martin Luther King, Jr., gave to America changed the way African-Americans are being treated. King delivered one of the greatest speeches in American history.
Minority Struggle In Minority Education in Comparative Perspective by John U. Ogbu addresses an issue of minority students having a problem achieving educational parity to whit dominant groups. Ogbu confronts the issue of immigrant and involuntary minorities and the difference between the two. Involuntary minorities resist education because they had a negative experience with education and were labeled as dumb and lazy. Immigrant minorities cherish their education more because they feel that American education will help them succeed in life. I will argue that involuntary minorities desire an education; however the banking system limits their chance to move ahead in education.
As both slaves and African Americans were not encouraged to be educated, caucasian people would have been afraid that they would gain power through the power of knowledge and attempt to find a way to be equal to them. In A Lesson Before Dying, we are able to see this occur, which sets the premise for the main issue within the novel. Within the characters of the novel, the author Ernest J. Gaines gives the characters different positions on the value of formal education. Grant Wiggins is the local school teacher in his neighborhood within the novel. He starts off by working in a town with minumum wage and believes that he will be able to gain a better education and runs off to a university.
This power was prohibited to many, due to its great results. Slave owners held their slaves back from being educated, as they knew they wouldn’t have the same mentality towards their labor. (Source A). College can only improve the foundation of future generations mentally, physically and economically. Not a day goes by without some kind of encouragement from, teachers and parents about college to their teens.
the black people in America suffered from the police interference in their lives and were even imprisoned even though they were not guilty. It is obvious that every human being has dreams. Martin Luther King had a dream too, which was seeing the world in peace and having equality rule the world. He dreamt about having brotherhood and seeing black and whites “sit down together at the tale of brotherhood”. To conclude, black people all over the world, wherever they live were for a long time victim of racism for their skin color.
I have to say that it is the duty of the parent and/or parents to educate their children’s understanding of the world around them about prior and current major issues, i.e. Apartheid. Though due to the modern world and its fast paced society parents often cannot find the time to instil a sense of self-understanding in their children and largely depend on the school to educate the youth about their history, heritage and culture. Since they are attending model-C schools, which are run by whites, they do not receive that vital education. It is the upper class of the black majority that attends model-C schools; these are the very institutes that instil, whether knowingly or unknowingly, the black youths understanding of where they come from and who they are.