Rhetorical Analysis Of Martin Luther King's Speech
August 18th, 1963, 250,000 people are gathered in Washington around the Lincoln Memorial statue in anticipation waiting to see what a hardworking young baptist minister has to say to the world. Martin Luther King slowly walks on stage and waves to the roaring crowd. He is ready to make a speech that would supposedly change the world forever. The speech he delivers is titled I have a dream, which challenges the racial perception of many Americans. He reminds the American people how one hundred years ago Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and how even years before that our founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence. Yet, even though, all of these documents promised many rights for the people of America, equal liberty has yet to come to fruition. He talks about what future of the nation and how we must change by remembering the history and rights of America.
Fifty-five years later, we still reflect on Dr. King’s speech and …show more content…
Some more information from the article We Must Denounce Trump’s Racist Actions, not just his Racist Word, discusses how Trump got support from his campaign. Most of Trump’s campaign was built on the racial perception of immigrants and what problems they bring to the United States. Donald uses these racial attitudes, perceptions and fears of people as a strategy for his campaign. Somehow he is able to make it all work in his favor.
To me, it seems that Trump must have had lots of planning for how he would make his campaign work. He did not set up his campaign in the usual way a regular candidate would. He decided to manipulate and draw the fear of racial perception out of people. He then would promise them ways he would stop their racial fears and make many people side with him. His campaign shows the full extent of what happens if racial perception gets out of hand, and how it can be used in a person's
Fifty-five years later, we still reflect on Dr. King’s speech and …show more content…
Some more information from the article We Must Denounce Trump’s Racist Actions, not just his Racist Word, discusses how Trump got support from his campaign. Most of Trump’s campaign was built on the racial perception of immigrants and what problems they bring to the United States. Donald uses these racial attitudes, perceptions and fears of people as a strategy for his campaign. Somehow he is able to make it all work in his favor.
To me, it seems that Trump must have had lots of planning for how he would make his campaign work. He did not set up his campaign in the usual way a regular candidate would. He decided to manipulate and draw the fear of racial perception out of people. He then would promise them ways he would stop their racial fears and make many people side with him. His campaign shows the full extent of what happens if racial perception gets out of hand, and how it can be used in a person's