Rhetorical Analysis Of Jesse Williams

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Jesse Williams, the recipient of the Humanitarian award at the BET awards uses his acceptance speech to combat the discrimination the African-American community faces daily. Being in such position he’s easily able to shine light on such atrocities. Jesse Williams applies rhetorical devices in his speech which further develop the purpose surrounding these atrocities that are faced so heavily by the Black population in America.
Jesse specifies discrimination the community faced continuously for numerous decades. All throughout history the African-American culture as a whole has had “brands” which Jesse uses to shape his argument. Summarizing African-American history into merely a sentence, “dedicating our lives to getting money just to give

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