Rhetorical Analysis Of Obama
The 44th president of the United States gave out a speech to the potential voters in the 2008 election. He spoke about equality, relations in the USA, and also responded to Reverend's comments. Reverend's comments appeared as racist and anti-American. It was urgent for the Reverend to save his reputation and campaign. Obama’s main purpose was to get the audience (potential voters) to be a part of a “more perfect union.” Obama encourages voters to go out and vote for him so we can face this challenge together. Obama welds three distinctive rhetorical tactics to support his overarching argument that unity is compulsory in this country to produce racial equality. First, he opens with a personal and historical background to highlight the moment
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Millions of American people are doubting him but he said “I have asserted a firm conviction – a conviction rooted in my faith in God and my faith in the American people – that working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds, and that in fact we have no choice if we are to continue on the path of a more perfect …show more content…
He said after “We would be making the same mistake Reverend Wright made in his offering sermons about America.” If this happened it would “simplify the stereotype and also amplify the negative. “ He uses parallelism so his main focus points correspond in the same way. It was stained by this nation’s original sin of slavery,” and other racial injustices. He then incorporates his “own American story” in an effort to include himself as a character in the ongoing chronicle of race in America. He states, “I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather… I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue.” It is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its parts – that out of many, we are truly one.” Obama was a community organizer, civil-rights lawyer and teacher before pursuing a political
Millions of American people are doubting him but he said “I have asserted a firm conviction – a conviction rooted in my faith in God and my faith in the American people – that working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds, and that in fact we have no choice if we are to continue on the path of a more perfect …show more content…
He said after “We would be making the same mistake Reverend Wright made in his offering sermons about America.” If this happened it would “simplify the stereotype and also amplify the negative. “ He uses parallelism so his main focus points correspond in the same way. It was stained by this nation’s original sin of slavery,” and other racial injustices. He then incorporates his “own American story” in an effort to include himself as a character in the ongoing chronicle of race in America. He states, “I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather… I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue.” It is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its parts – that out of many, we are truly one.” Obama was a community organizer, civil-rights lawyer and teacher before pursuing a political