Malcolm X

Paragraph 5- REPETITION - "IN"

"In 1964, oppressed people all over the world, in Africa, in Asia and Latin America, in the Caribbean, made some progress."

Malcolm X uses repetition to make Militant Labor Forum supporter think about accomplishments made from those oppressed, to get the audience thinking of the progress made from the people.

Paragraph 8- ENUMERATION- Negative Actions

"In 1964 this government, subsidizing Tshombe, the murderer of Lumumba, and Tshombe's mercenaries, hired killers from South Africa, along with the former colonial power, Belgium, dropped paratroopers on the people of the Congo, used Cubans, that they had trained, to drop bombs on the people of the Congo with American-made planes—to no avail. The struggle is still going on, and America's man, Tshombe, is still losing."

Malcolm X uses enumeration in order to show the negative actions done upon the government to create feelings upon the audience, letting them reflect upon the actions on the government.

PARAGRAPH 29- SHAMING-Allowing Types of People

In 1964 we had still with us the slumlords, people who own the houses but don't live there themselves; usually they live up around the Grand Concourse or somewhere. They contribute to the NAACP and CORE and all the civil-rights organizations; give you money to go out and picket, and they own the house that you're picketing.

Malcolm X uses shaming to make militant labor forum supporters feel ashamed for letting there be such people in the country that benefit from us as a citizen.

PATHOS

"The frustration of these black representatives from Mississippi, when they arrived in Washington, D.C., the other day, thinking, you know, that the Great Society was going to include them—only to see the door closed in their face like that—that's what makes them think. That's what makes them realize what they're up against."

Malcolm X uses pathos in order to make the audience feel emotion when Malcolm explains the wrongful actions to those affected.

TRANSFER

Black people in 1965 will not be controlled by these Uncle Tom leaders, believe me; they won't be held in check, they won't be held on the plantation by these overseers, they won't be held on the corral, they won't be held back at all.

Malcolm X uses Transfer as a way to portray positivity amongst his belief in change for African Americans, allowing the audience to feel hope and positivity.

PATHOS

" In 1964, 97 per cent of the black American voters supported Lyndon B. Johnson, Hubert Humphrey and the Democratic Party. Ninety-seven per cent! Not one minority group in the history of the world has ever given so much of its uncompromising support to one candidate and one party. No one people, not one group, has ever gone all the way to support a party and its candidate as did the black people in America in 1964."t

Malcolm X uses pathos to create a sense of emotion to the audience in order to grab their attention. He creates positivity upon the support from African Americans. It helps his point by bringing a good thing about the African Americans, at the time.

Fear mongering

I wasn't here. I'm glad I wasn't here. Because I'd be dead, they'd have to kill me. I'd rather be dead than let someone walk around my house or in my neighborhood shooting it up, where my children are in the line of fire. Either they'd die or I'd die.

Malcolm X uses fear mongering to make Militant Labor forum supporters feel frightened about the Harlem situation and that there needs to be action taken to stop this from happening again before anyone else ends up hurt or dead.

PATHOS

"This government should feel lucky that our people aren't anti-American. They should get down on their hands and knees every morning and thank God that 22 million black people have not become anti-American. "

Malcolm X uses pathos to convey emotion among the audience allowing thinking to begin of this statement. Malcolm used this statement to create a new mindset on African Americans.

PATHOS

"The people in this country who in the past have been at peace and have been peaceful were that way only because they didn't know what freedom was. They let somebody else define it for them, but today, 1965, you find those who have not had freedom, and were not in a position to define freedom, are beginning to define it for themselves. And as they get in a position intellectually to define freedom for themselves, they see that they don't have it, and it makes them less peaceful, or less inclined towards peace."

Malcolm X uses pathos in order to create a sense of thinking from this statement allowing emotion in the audience. He uses emotional language to appeal onto the audiences emotions from his statement.