Rhetorical Analysis On Malcolm X

lollipop from a black child, at which point the black child stops crying and goes out to fight the white boy), and they will then proceed to keep rising up against those white people until they have absolutely nothing, and have learned a lesson to never mess with any black people ever again (in the article, the black child beats the white child to “within an inch of his ass-cracker life”). This exaggerates Malcolm X’s real words, which were more to the effect of “By any means necessary”, in order to achieve humour. However, the article does not only make fun of Malcolm X. The final paragraph is supposed to be a quote of what the FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover at the time of the event said about the speech: “…it would appear that, after four centuries of abuse, broken promises and subjugation, American negroes are not only dissatisfied; they’re starting to get really angry.” This statement accuses white Americans of being ignorant towards the struggle for racial equality between them and African-Americans, as well as to why they are rising up.
The article is useful because it gives an historian an idea of how the civil rights struggle is viewed today by black people as opposed to white people – albeit an exaggerated one. African-Americans view Malcolm X as their hero or saviour for leading them, to an extent, out of their oppression from whites. White Americans view Malcolm X as a radical leader who encouraged violence and anger towards white people for how they had treated black Americans for so long. The source is limited because it is not from the actual time, and it is a satirical view on the whole situation and Malcolm X, so it is not what Malcolm X really said, it is only based on what he implied (which is hugely