Speech 7

Malcolm X- By Any Means Necessary


"Brothers and Siters, our friends, and our enemies." He smirks as begins his speech by opening up with a joke, immediately sending the audience into laughter. Any feelings of tension are instantly relinquished with his charismatic and witty opening. The speech takes place after his return from the holy city of Mecca as he left the Nation of Islam. He is more raw and not as polished as his message is more direct and without concern for the appearance of a whole organization. He uses anecdotes to describe his trips to the Mecca and to Africa. These stories further aids his argument on the castration of black American's progression. He compares the freedom of the recently colonized yet underdeveloped people of Africa to the discriminated blacks of America. He uses his stories to detail the discrepancies of the American black race, giving credibility to his argument with his experiences.

He uses this platform to establish his new organization, The Organization of African Unity. He says its object is " to fight whoever gets in our way and  bring about the complete independence of people of African descent in the western hemisphere, by Any Means Necessary". Here Malcolm speaks some of his most famous words. He is a man of the people through his struggles and triumphs. Even with his struggle with the Nation of Islam , he is still a man of the people. He fights for them because they are him.  His general like oration sends the crows into a clapping frenzy as they get ready for battle behind Malcolm's words.

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