Racism In John F. Kennedy's Speech

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Racism is one of the most common problem around the world back then and even now, people judges people based on their skin color and to stop racism the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy has a very persuasive speech about this in June 11, 1963 followed by the event at Alabama, 2 young mens was disqualified to be the student at the University of Alabama because they were born Negro and there were a lots of cases like that in America so that’s why he give a speech about this serious problem, he wanted to stop racism before it get worse. The main idea of the speech is to stop racism and to tell everyone the colored skin people should be treated normal. The elements that make this speech effective is parallelism, ethos appeals, pathos appeals. The author uses a lots of parallelism in the speech and parallelism is a literary device in which parts of the sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction. For example, John F. Kennedy says, “If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public …show more content…

He used the Congress’s credibility, the emotions of people and repeatedly rephrase his words to highlight and emphasize it and to let everyone know this is a serious problem in our country and we can stop this just by one simple act, stop judging people because of their skin color. The main message of this speech does applies to today’s reality because there are still racism today, the message that I’ve found in the speech is very valuable, it teaches me that no matter what race we are or what color we have on our skin, we are still a human being, we born the same way and we should treat each other the same way too. The speech show me on how to deliver a message by using figure of speech and emphasize the main