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In our recent times, New Orleans has decided to take down 4 of its confederate statues, due to many complaints, anger, and fighting Mayor Mitch Landrieu makes an address to the people of New Orleans. Mayor Mitch Landrieu starts off with ethos saying, “You see: New Orleans is truly a city of many nations, a melting pot, a bubbling cauldron of many cultures.” Page.2 September 3, 2017. With this he connects with the people of New Orleans, after establishing this connection he proceeds to beginning to discuss the issue at hand. Stating that in New Orleans History it was a massive slave center, and that the people who fought for this to stay during the civil war were warriors but not patriots. With this in mind Mayor Mitch …show more content…
These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, and the terror that it actually stood for.” Page.4 September 3, 2017. In making this comment, Mayor Mitch Landrieu argues that because the statues represent the wrong side of history they should be taken down. He continues by using ethos by saying he once passed these statues without a thought of what they represent, connecting with the part audience that don’t believe it’s not a big deal. Then using Ethos, he presents an example of why it does matter if they are taken down. Mayor Mitch Landrieu states, “Another friend asked me to consider these four monuments from the perspective of an African American mother or father trying to explain to their fifth-grade daughter who Robert E. Lee is and why he stands atop of our beautiful city. Can you do it?” page. 6 September 3, 2017. After this he uses very effective rhetorical questions to show that people could not explain this, and because of that the monuments need to come down. He ends the speech essentially saying that New Orleans can tear down the monuments to create a new message to the next generation, and build a new tomorrow. With this he effectively makes his point as to why the
In our recent times, New Orleans has decided to take down 4 of its confederate statues, due to many complaints, anger, and fighting Mayor Mitch Landrieu makes an address to the people of New Orleans. Mayor Mitch Landrieu starts off with ethos saying, “You see: New Orleans is truly a city of many nations, a melting pot, a bubbling cauldron of many cultures.” Page.2 September 3, 2017. With this he connects with the people of New Orleans, after establishing this connection he proceeds to beginning to discuss the issue at hand. Stating that in New Orleans History it was a massive slave center, and that the people who fought for this to stay during the civil war were warriors but not patriots. With this in mind Mayor Mitch …show more content…
These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, and the terror that it actually stood for.” Page.4 September 3, 2017. In making this comment, Mayor Mitch Landrieu argues that because the statues represent the wrong side of history they should be taken down. He continues by using ethos by saying he once passed these statues without a thought of what they represent, connecting with the part audience that don’t believe it’s not a big deal. Then using Ethos, he presents an example of why it does matter if they are taken down. Mayor Mitch Landrieu states, “Another friend asked me to consider these four monuments from the perspective of an African American mother or father trying to explain to their fifth-grade daughter who Robert E. Lee is and why he stands atop of our beautiful city. Can you do it?” page. 6 September 3, 2017. After this he uses very effective rhetorical questions to show that people could not explain this, and because of that the monuments need to come down. He ends the speech essentially saying that New Orleans can tear down the monuments to create a new message to the next generation, and build a new tomorrow. With this he effectively makes his point as to why the