Organizing a speech in a way that advances the argument can help it in various ways, even the 44th President of the United States, President Obama does this. On July 16th, 2009, the 100th anniversary of the NAACP, President Obama delivered his “Remarks to the NAACP” speech. In this speech he highlighted various important topics. One of these many topics was how to promote equality. Since President Obama clearly and accurately organized his speech in a way that advances his argument, he was able to effectively talk about promoting equality through family, education, and our communities.
Promoting equality through our families is the first step to having equality in the outside world. In President Obama’s speech, he says, “But all these innovative programs and expanded opportunities will not, in and of themselves, make a difference if each of us, as parents and as community leaders, fail to do our part by encouraging excellence in our children.” Therefore, because of what Obama says, I believe that to promote equality through our families we need to teach them about it. Not only just to say you need to learn about equality, you need to strive to make it your effort to show them how you should be as a humane person. Without this he could not have advanced into his other arguments, such as Education.
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Next Obama says, “African-American students are lagging behind white classmates in reading and math – an achievement gap that is growing in states that once led the way on civil rights. Over half of all African-American students are dropping out of school in some places.” To be able to show that black students are just as smart as white students we need better education. We need to be able to get better classrooms for African American students. Classrooms that have a mandatory learning environment such as white classrooms. Therefore, he gets to the point of equality in our