Rhetorical Analysis: A More Perfect Union

In 2008 former senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama spoke out on the issue of racial discrimination. In his speech, A More Perfect Union, he took the minute to let the world know about the racial issues that are being ignored and also shares his past experiences of what he has witnessed from his pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright from one of his given touching on races other than African Americans in which he expressed the distorted view of the country. In his speech he uses rhetorical devices such as allusions, ethos and repetition to persuade and get across to the listeners during his speech. This helps him get his message out to the democratic committee about races having equal rights and also gets voters to vote for him.
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He uses pathos to create sympathy by telling a story of kids growing up in poverty while lacking the services that should be provided. From that it makes the black community upset with the government and causes to have to further himself to Rev. Jeremiah Wright but also lets the people know the good and bad about him. For instance in the speech he says that “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can more disown him than I can my white grandmother, a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed a lot for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe”. Emphasizing that he was in no way justifying or excusing Wright’s comment would be making the same mistake he made in his offending sermons about America. As he brings up the good in the pastor by saying that he strengthened my faith and others he described in the speech, in which hoping that they let this incident fade away just how they dismissed Geraldine Ferraro from her recent statements from some deep seated racial