Malcolm X's Speech Synthesis Essay

In the 60s, it was a time of major political and equality shifts in America—especially for the African Americans at that time. Participating in freedom rides, peaceful marches, sit-ins, and—at times—violence; all to make others across the nation understand that they deserve the same amount of equal opportunity. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. believed that to get to that goal of equal opportunity was through a nonviolent method, using your words and marching peacefully instead of using your fist in constant anger. While Malcolm X, in retrospect, believed that nothing would have gotten done if you just sat down and waited, violence was necessary. They were both amazing and aspiring orators of their time, but for the most influential when addressing

It is worth to pointing out that throughout Malcolm’s speech from the Grassroots is that he uses many language techniques to further push his audience into understanding and reacting as he does to the oppressed ways that African Americans were being treated like. One of those techniques was a personal use of pronouns, where Malcolm makes use of “we” and “you” allowing a unity to be formed amongst the audience and a chance for the audience to be on a personal level with him, as shown here, “We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator … If you don't make it at home, you settle it at home; you get in the closet, argue it out behind closed doors, and then when you come out on the street.” Two other techniques of Malcolm’s would be his use of triples and rhetorical questions as he transitions throughout his speech. This provides examples and more clarification for the audience to hear and comprehend from what Malcolm is discussing about African American problems in the