Speech 4

Malcolm X-UC Berkeley October 11, 1963

Malcolm X begins his speech engaging in hyperbole. When speaking at the prestigious University of California Berkely and  being asked to not speak about  religion, the Nation of Islam religion, he goes on, " It's like telling a bird to fly without its wings, or a race horse to run without its legs. Then you condemn that bird you have crippled yourself and condemn the horse you have also crippled because it can't keep p, this is very hypocritical." His analogies on probability emphasize his message on expression. He uses creative imagery of limbless animals to highlight the bias of handicapping dialogue. This device is parallel to Cicero's believe in imaginative imagery to persuade. Cicero believed that, "Orators should strive at creating, avant la lettre, cinematic effects by reducing events, objects, people, architecture, or the world at large, to verbal (rhetorical) expressions, which in the end create visual impressions through the eyes of the mind...these imaginable pictures will generate responses from the audience." 

He uses forensic and deliberative to  rhetoric create a plan for the endurance of the black race. He speaks of the '20 million' ex- slaves to seperate from the white man and have their own land. He demonstrates Strategy, with a Plan, Pattern, Position, and a clear Perspective. He speaks, " The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that in our own land we can establish our own agriculutral system, we can grow food to feed our own people, we can raise cattle and use the hide, the leather, and the wool to clothe our own people...land is the basis of all economic security, land is essential to freedom, justice, and equality, land is essential to true independence." Malcolm X is clear and concise on his message and the path he wants the black race to follow to prosperity. His plan bold and exact, and he speaks with the same conviction and precision. Malcolm X never demonstrates imprecision or lack of information, as his diction is loaded yet concise.

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