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As we have moved from the stone age to the 21st century, several things have changed except for one thing, which is racism. Despite having educated people, why does racism still exist in our society? If we look back to the ancient world history, there are so many people who contributed their lives to end the root of discrimination. Booker T. Washington was one of the significant figures and the first African-American who got honored by Harvard University on 23rd June 1896. He was honored a degree from the Harvard University for working in the support of unprivileged Negro people of that time(Washington). He delivered the speech about the importance of equality and racial harmony among the white and colored people. In the given speech, “BOOKER …show more content…
T. WASHINGTON AT HARVARD”, Washington discussed about the racial discrimination, spoke about the importance to change the perspective of the Negro community, showed his life philosophy, and argued about the importance of equality among the people in every sector by using rhetorical devices; ethos, pathos and logos that make his essay credible, relatable and logical. The ethical appeals in Washington’s speech emphasized his moral character and the credibility from the very first paragraph.
Ethos is a rhetorical device that persuades the reader/audience through author’s credibility or character (Burton). In his speech, Washington frequently used “Harvard” from the very beginning. Harvard, a famous educational institution is a credential for every student to be successful. He gave credibility to the Harvard University for inviting him in the program and praising him for his work, even though he was of African- American race. Not only this, the use of words “Our Republic and Negro community” (Washington) and “We” (Washington) in the speech explains the desire of Washington to unify the country by maintaining the racial harmony among the white and colored people. Washington used suitable language in his speech and was able to establish the strong ethical appeals which make his speech more reasonable for the …show more content…
audience. The pathetic appeals in Washington’s speech make his claims more relatable, as he mentioned the difficulties and hatred faced by the Negro community.
Pathos is the rhetorical device that is used to convince an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response (Burton). On his speech, Washington shared his emotions, “We are crawling up, working up, yea, bursting up. Often through oppression, unjust discrimination, and prejudice, but through them all, we are coming up, and with proper habits, intelligence and property, there is no power on earth that can permanently stay our progress” (Washington). He emphasized the struggle of colored people and how hard they worked to uplift the equality among the white Americans in the society. Through his speech, he mentioned that the Negro people were differentiated in the society and were forced to work with low wages in the fields and were not allowed to go to school. Due to continuous discrimination, the Negroes started thinking that they do not deserve freedom. Despite all racial tension, the Negroes found encouragement which inspired them to work hard and become a better person. They got better at the fundamental skills and reached the way up to victory(Negroes). Another example of Pathos is, “While we are thus being tested, I beg of you to remember that wherever our life touches yours, we help you hinder. Wherever your life touches ours, you make us stronger or weaker(Washington). By using this example, he was trying to tell
people to work hard and excel their skills in spite of comparing each other in terms of body color. Washington stated that if we all people work together, we can understand each other better and this may be helpful to create a strong bond with each other. Not only this, through this example he said that if we try to help people who are in difficulties, we may be able to get help from others whenever we are struggling. Overall, Washington invoked his feelings in an effective way by describing the effects of racism and how colored people are trying to move forward ignoring the hatred.
Pathos is the author's use of emotions and sympathy to urge the audience to agree with his or her standpoint. And lastly, logos apply sound reasoning (logic) to attract the typical ideas of the audience and to prove the author's point of view. "Lockdown" by Evans D. Hopkins is a fine example of an author using these appeals to persuade his audience. Hopkins uses of the three appeals are easy to locate and relate to throughout the entire passage. He undoubtedly uses rhetoric to try and keep his audiences focused and to persuade them to feel the way he does about the treatment of prisoners.
As a nation, we have made great strides at improving race relations, but this does not mean that racism is extinct. As was pointed out in the class lecture on the Civil Rights Movement, many things have improved, but the fight for civil rights should be continuing as there is still oppression in operation in our own State as was made clear on the issue of suppressing voter rights. Racism is not born into mankind, racism is taught. This shows that if hate can be taught, then love and respect for others can be taught also.
Moving into the speech, pathos,ethos, and logos were mentioned multiple times. Pathos appeal to the emotions which help the reader connect to the speaker. For instance, the use of “Us” and “America will rise” various times allows the audience to connect more to the subject. Also, Booker mentions the statement “Love knows that every American has worth and value” which conveys that the audience is important and that the people of America are in this together. Ethos are appeals to credibility or
They used pathos to stir up the feelings of the people. “we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal.” This quote is an excellent example of pathos. It gave the people a sense of pride and encouraged them to fight for it.
Pathos is the appeal to emotion and Malcolm X uses a lot of pathos in his speech. Before getting into specific lines of his speech that use pathos, Malcolm X has a great usage of pathos by repeating the line “the ballot or the bullet.” This line created a sense of urgency that his audience needed to do something now to create change. He uses this effectively throughout his speech. A specific part of his speech that uses pathos is when he mentions about the march in Washington. He said “He made a chump out of you. He made a fool out of you. He made you think you were going somewhere and you end up going nowhere but between Lincoln and Washington.” This is an example of pathos because of how he spoke this in a way to spark anger in his audience. He is appealing to their anger towards the injustice they faced from the white man. Malcolm X purpose of trying to spark anger is because anger is a way to get someone passionate about an issue and more likely to do something about it. Another specific part of his speech that uses pathos is when he begins saying that African-Americans have never seen democracy. His exact words are “We don’t see the American dream. We see the American nightmare.” Again this is a way to spark anger in his audience over the injustice they have faced. Malcolm X did not believe in violence, his intent was not to get his audience angry and react out in violence, but to vote for future. This is why he
He is able to be successful in establishing both ethos and pathos. By establishing himself as equal to his audience, he is able to evoke emotion and influence their feelings of a need for change. The narrative enables Douglass to flaunt his hard-earned education. As stated before, his diction brings pathos to his work. He describes his experiences in a way that lets his audience feel the indignity of being owned by another person.
It would be ignorant to say racism does not exist till today. There is almost a complete 100 year difference between the reconstruction period and the Civil Rights Movement for equal rights to the Black society. While slavery took time to vanish in the south in those hundreds of years, segregation was pushed harshly, laws we 're enacted to prevent Blacks from having certain privileges that whites had. Segregation almost seemed to kick the Blacks out of the society we live together in. The Jim Crow laws had made efficient work in separating the Blacks from the Whites in society, and it took the Civil Rights movement in 1964 to finally bring more equality to the African-American society. However, the Ku Klux Klan and still other organizations had existed and continue to exist despite efforts to bring equality. There is a strong social equality for the Black population in America today, but because of hate organizations and discrimination still existing today, black lives are being lost through murder, and even in forms of police brutality. Take for example the L.A riots in 1992 from the beating of Rodney King, or going back to 1967 the Detroit riots which tore apart these cities. Today Black Lives Matter movements exist to crush out racism in society so people no longer have to live in fear, and it is an existing movement that I think will actually fade as generations in the future work to build up society, and racism will become a thing of a past. There is however, always going to be something that causes prejudices and hate in society if not directed to one group of people. Even today if racism disappears between blacks and whites, prejudice occurs between cultural people here in America. These problems exist mainly in America, and it is socially slowing us down from advancing as a
In 1903 black leader and intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois wrote an essay in his collection The Souls of Black Folk with the title “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others.” Both Washington and Du Bois were leaders of the black community in the 19th and 20th century, even though they both wanted to see the same outcome for black Americans, they disagreed on strategies to help achieve black social and economic progress. History shows that W.E.B Du Bois was correct in racial equality would only be achieved through politics and higher education of the African American youth.
As stated before, racism is not something that people thought of in the last ten years, it is an ongoing theme that has been flowing through the story of the United States. Starting from the enslavement of black Africans, and moving along to the days of when African Americans were separated from white Americans even though they lived in the same country and walked the same streets. Racism is seen all over the world. Hitler killed close to six million Jews during World War II due to the fact that he claimed that Germans were superior. He said that Jews polluted Europe and began “cleaning” it up. “Racism serves both to discriminate against ethnic minorities and to maintain advantages and benefits for White Americans.” This is what Mark Feinberg, PhD, stated about this issue and most people would agree.
During his lifetime, Booker T. Washington was a national leader for the betterment of African Americans in the post-Reconstruction South. He advocated for economic and industrial improvement of Blacks while accommodating Whites on voting rights and social equality. Washington traces his life from his being born a slave to an educator. His writings and speeches, though initially was very influential for his race, later in his life began to be challenged by the new generation of African Americans and died as he did in 1915 with him. In this autobiography of his life, Washington’s generalizations and accommodations of the treatment and disregard for the African American by people of the White race was nonchalant, as though he felt that for some reason it was okay or necessary for African Americans to be treated as second class.
King uses in his speech is Pathos, which is the appeal to someone 's emotions or beliefs. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. presented a strong feeling towards African-American people about how they were treated as equal individuals “But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination” (King par. 3). Another example of pathos that Dr. King used was when he uses vocabulary and phrases, such as “I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream” (King par. 12). He uses the appeal of emotion, especially the word of choice and diction to let his audience’s know what he would like to see in the
... oppression blacks faced. King’s appeal to ethos set the stage for other methods of persuasion. By building up this appeal, King was able to establish a common ground between himself and the audience. King delivered an effective appeal to pathos, which in turn evoked an emotional response from the viewers. King also used appeals to logic in order to reason with his audience. By appealing to all three rhetorical elements, pathos, logos, and ethos, King was able to effectively persuade and motivate the audience to achieve equality for all American citizens.
Racism can be defined as "any set of beliefs, which classifies humanity into distinct collectives, defined in terms of natural and/or cultural attributes, and ranks these attributes in a hierarchy of superiority and inferiority" (Blum 5). It can be directly linked to the past and still, centuries later, serves as a painful reminder that race continues to be one of the "sharpest and deepest divisions in American life" (Loewen 138). What are the causes of racism? How did it develop historically? In order to answer those complex questions, I plan to examine the conditions of America's history, from colonialism to present day society.
Racism is a case of ‘misplaced hate’ and ignorance, being not only discriminatory, but also seemingly foolish with disregard of all human commonsense. Why does racism still exist in today’s world? If it still occurs, has the world really progressed at all? Through extensive research methods and wide reading, it can be proven that racism is still present in the modern world.
Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech is a valuable and memorable piece of rhetoric. King’s speech includes different types of claim such as fact, value, and policy. The structure of the speech is well-planned. The speech is supported with all three persuasive appeals: ethos, pathos, and logos. For example, Dr. King describes that “...the life of the Negro is still badly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chins of discrimination...the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land” (King). This creates pathos or an emotional appeal on the audience,...