Rhetorical Analysis Of Lewis Speech

Towards the middle of Lewis’s speech, he criticizes the American politics by questioning the whereabouts of a political party that will not give false hope pretenses in it’s promise and claim to help out the civilians marching in Washington. Lewis complicates the idea of American politicians and politics being productive and moral when he announces, “...American politics is dominated by politicians who build their careers on immoral compromises...ally themselves with open forms of political, economic, and social exploitation” (para 5). The essence of Lewis’s argument is the leaders of the civil rights movement are defending their rights as well civilians are marching for liberal rights, but which might not even be actually accomplished because of the government being so corruptive, giving false promises of political freedom.
To further illustrate this idea, Lewis states, “Where is our party? Where is the political party that will make it unnecessary to march on Washington?” (para 5). In this example, Lewis’s highlights the idea on how the march on Washington should have been unnecessary for Lewis argues how there should be a political party protecting and fighting for the civil rights color civilians are derived from. Lewis utilizes the rhetorical strategy of anaphora when he repeats the phrase, “Where is…” in order to emphasize the loneliness and isolation the color people get from their own country and government, the government that is suppose to serve and protect with at least a political party to help protest and