Rhetorical Analysis Of Dr. Martin Luther King's I Have...

Fifty-Four years ago in Washington D.C., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. He spoke about his disapproval of both black and white people judging each other by the color of their skin instead of by the content of their character. He made this speech to convince people that racism is wrong. However, people of color are still discriminated against in societies all over the world, specifically in American society. Racism is hurtful to not just people of color, but to American society as a whole by not letting black people express their opinions, not allowing us to move from the past and not allowing both races to cooperate with each other. First, the government in the US often silences the opinions of black …show more content…
This allows for many aspects of life to benefit white people and no other races. This particular piece of text demonstrates the racial divide well. This conversation occurs when two characters talk about the American Justice system, "There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads- they couldn't be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it is a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins, “(Lee, page 295). If the courts will only trust the words of someone who is white, then the court systems in the USA are definitely biased towards the opinions of people of color. This is not the only piece of media that describes this racial divide well, however. In the following text, the author (who is a person of color) describes his life in college, "Despite these and other unpleasant episodes, however, my college experience in the 1980s was nothing less than a …show more content…
This is because it’s often abnormal if two or more people that are of different races get along really well. The segregation of both races can be seen in media such as this, "I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. ‘By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not," (Alexie, page 176). Showing the segregation of each race into different groups and identifying that groups are instead formed by the personality of individual people is a step in the right direction when it comes to eliminating racism from society. Another piece of media that shows the unjust separation of races in our society is, "Sorry, only family members are allowed in here. Look at him, he's my brother. Do you see the family resemblance?" (Yakin). People of different races consider themselves so connected that it was if they were family shows that not only is society separating white people from black people on the principle of racism alone, but that racism not only is problematic for people of color, but for American society as a whole as

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Rhetorical Analysis Of Dr. Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream Speech