Malcolm X Rhetorical Analysis Essay

Malcolm X is regarded as one of the most polarizing figures of the 20th century. As a human rights activist, a Muslim minister, and most of all a black American, his purpose was not only to inculpate whites for the oppression of Black America and the black population as whole but to also undertake a social and territorial insurgence against the global white population. Being one of the biggest critics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X did not condone the use of love as a mean to solve thousands of years of brutality perpetrated by their common exploiter. In like manner, on November 10, 1963 Malcolm X delivered the speech “A Message to the Grassroots.” In it he identifies the incompetent, subservient principles of the Negro Revolution, ergo he introduces a call to action which would conceive real change. To accomplish such an endeavor, at a time when another activist was gaining much more traction, (X)’s usage of persuasive rhetorical strategies emphasized the inadequacy of a “peaceful” revolution in a time of hostile injustice where militarized action was the only solution. He achieved the feat by employing the usage of a variety of devices, such as process analysis, classification, contrast, anaphora, characterization, and effective rhetorical questioning.Through the application of these strategies, Malcolm X’s …show more content…
He achieved both by applying inclusive strategies on his audience. X used more than 36 questions in his speech, all serving a very intentional function. The first 5 rhetorical questions were meant to make the audience reach a premeditated opinion. If revolution was the objective, the audience needed to primarily know what “revolution” signified in Malcolm X’s terms. As a result, the next 8 question were rhetorical answers to a proposition earlier stated in the 5th question, “what is a