Organization of Black Communities‚ minister and human rights activist‚ Malcolm X‚ has intrigued me the most because he developed a thought-provoking and clever notion that accurately encompassed the entire African-American experience. In X’s “The Ballot or the Bullet Speech‚” he states “If you black‚ you were born in jail‚ in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South‚”
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Malcolm X’s The Ballot or the Bullet is a speech about re educating the black community about their economics and separating the church from the civil rights movement. X relies heavily on Pathos‚ Logos‚ and Ethos throughout his speech. This rhetorical well-roundedness is a part of what made this speech so incredibly successful. Malcolm X started his speech with Ethos to establish his position and his ability to make this speech‚ he then used pathos to get the attention of the audience then backed
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his Ballod Or Bullet Speech. One of the purposes of his speech was to help blacks realize the corruption of white Americas political leadership amongst black societies. The other purpose was to persuade blacks to stand up for themselves and create their own government. The title of his speech exemplified what politicians were trying to do in black communities. Malcolm X mentions that white politicians relay fake promises in the black societies in return for more votes. “Ballod or Bullet” meant that
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Colin Ransom English 12A Ms. Davis The Ballot or The Bullet-Malcolm X -Malcolm’s primary audiences were mainly African Americans. - He addressed the whites and the white news media‚ because he felt that they played a very key and significant role in his discussion of the Ballot or the Bullet. - He spoke of the whites in such an uncompromising fashion because he felt that the whites were to blame‚ of the oppression and struggle in the black community. Malcolm also had a very intriguing
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Malcolm X Warns‚ "It Shall Be The Ballot or The Bullet" The 1960s were a time of battle for change. Frustrated and fed up with the oppression with which they were forced to live‚ influential people such as Malcolm X‚ Rosa Parks‚ and Martin Luther King‚ Jr. started a whirlwind known as the Civil Rights Movement. On Easter Sunday‚ March 29‚ 1964‚ Malcolm X gave a speech warning of "the ballot or the bullet" (3) from the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights‚ New York. Extending his position to black
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Few words on "Do the right thing" movie I learned about Martin Luther King Jr.’s ’I Have a Dream’ speech and Malcolm X’s ’The Ballot or The Bullet’ speech in one of our previous classes. Interestingly‚ I found a reflection of both their speeches in this movie. To me‚ one of the most shocking scenes was when the white cop choked Radio Raheem to death. Although Radio‚ a gigantic black man‚ was refusing to submit to handcuffs‚ I believe that the white cop had no right to cross his boundaries and choke
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Joshua Rosado English 104 Professor Rosenberg 5 December 2012 Trailblazers Black oppression dates back to the birth of the United States. For almost two hundred years Africans were kidnapped from their villages and directly imported to the New World where they would be sold into slavery and remain there for years to come (King). In slavery they would experience “the abuses associated with bondage‚ including arduous labor‚ corporal punishment‚ sexual exploitation‚ and family separations” (King)
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Questions on “The Ballot or the Bullet” – Malcolm X Define each terms (as it is used in the Speech): Americanism this is based off the supposedly democracy that America has and saying that all he sees is all we’ve seen is hypocrisy Black nationalism that we will have to carry on a program‚ a political program‚ of re-education to open our people’s eyes‚ make us become more politically conscious‚ politically mature‚ and then whenever we get ready to cast our ballot that ballot‚ will be cast for a
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I will be talking about the racism that people had to face in these stories “Letter from Birmingham Jail”‚ “I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr. and “The Ballot or the Bullet” by Malcolm X. In the stories racism plays a big part. In one of the stories they talk about black people having the right to vote. Another one was about how would like to just white people. One of them had to do with telling black people how black people felt in the times. Racism has a part in all these books. In this
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A bullet is a cylinder of lead that is fired from a gun‚ the actual bullet is covered with a metal jacket. Bullets travel at very high speeds‚ some bullets can go up to 5‚500 meters. Ball bullets are used mostly in the army‚ or hunting. Tracer bullets are bullets that leave a line of fire after being shot from the gun. Armor piercing bullets have a center of steel and blunt noses‚ these bullets are used to take down tanks and other big machinery. Dumdum bullets have jackets that do not cover the
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