He recognizes the similarities between current issues and slavery through his use of metaphors relating to negative images to affect the crowd’s emotions. Not to mention, Malcolm studied the Bandung conference and realized their strategy of unity. He claims, “The number-one thing that was not allowed to attend the Bandung conference was the white man. He couldn’t come. Once they excluded the white man, they found that they could get together. Once they kept him out, everybody else fell right in and fell in line.” This idealistic example suggests that all of them could come together and make one through the strategy of keeping all the whites out. In order for them to find unity, Malcolm X inclines the audience’s emotions. The unrealistic ideas hidden behind his metaphors and anecdotes work to persuade his audience that anything is possible. Anecdotes and metaphors strive in his speech, in order for all of them to come as one and fight
He recognizes the similarities between current issues and slavery through his use of metaphors relating to negative images to affect the crowd’s emotions. Not to mention, Malcolm studied the Bandung conference and realized their strategy of unity. He claims, “The number-one thing that was not allowed to attend the Bandung conference was the white man. He couldn’t come. Once they excluded the white man, they found that they could get together. Once they kept him out, everybody else fell right in and fell in line.” This idealistic example suggests that all of them could come together and make one through the strategy of keeping all the whites out. In order for them to find unity, Malcolm X inclines the audience’s emotions. The unrealistic ideas hidden behind his metaphors and anecdotes work to persuade his audience that anything is possible. Anecdotes and metaphors strive in his speech, in order for all of them to come as one and fight