Rhetorical Analysis Of Steve Cohen's The United States Federal Apology

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In the Steve Cohen's, the United States Federal Apology to the African Americans, the US employed a number of rhetorical strategies to apologize to the African Americans while acknowledging past wrongdoings, through the use of historical allusions, a changing sense of tone, and Cohen's clever diction and syntax to emphazize the United States's true remorse and regret towards the African American community. Steve Cohen uses many historical allusions and references to previous events to explain the wrongdoings and mistakes that the United States made back when it was forming into a country. By highlighting the many mistakes that the United States has made in regards to African Americans, he gains not only credibility by owning up to the mistakes