Malcolm X Speech 1: May 5 1962: Los Angeles ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpr6PK-Cz3c)
Malcolm X speaks with command and ferocity as he speaks on events plaguing the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles and America abroad. Through his rhetoric, Mr. X uses a deliberative form with with an epideictic approach. He uses heavy elements of the ethos and pathos appeals. He switches his tones as he jumps between diatribes of the black experience and thought provoking anecdotes on the reaction of black experience to white supremacy. He touches on matters and represents their struggle with a clarity and fortitude. He is one of them, feels what they feel, a past criminal himself, he is a man of redemption, of triumph. He states, " To have once been a criminal is no disgrace...to remain a criminal is a disgrace. " Malcolm X often uses irony to take aim at America's logic of a so called free and democratic country in a state of oppression and suppression. Malcom X says, "They have more police than any other neighborhood, yet it has more crime in it the any other neighborhood; how can you have more cops and more crime? Why? It shows you that the cops must be in cahoots with the criminal"(crowd laughs in an uproar and claps). He speaks of changing policies and the re-interpretation of rights in an ever evolving world. He talks about the state of current politics and mentions the 'fork tongued' Mayor of Los Angeles, Sam Yorty, putting pressure on a system constructed to pressure on him and his people. He speaks with a purpose while the people chant and applaud, as the orator gives life to the audience.
