African American Persuasive Speech

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My fellow Americans,

I am here before you today as a man of a different United States of America than we live in today. A man who has lived through the evils that America has inflicted upon their own. A man who has been directly affected by these evils. Nevertheless, I have also lived through America’s attempts to redeem themselves. I have lived through America’s attempts to aid those whom they had previously inflicted those evils upon. I see before me, an America that has evolved a long way from its barbarous beginnings. But all is not well in this great nation, and if I’m elected to the office of President of these United States of America, I hope to reconcile all Americans.

Growing up as an African-American in the Southern United States in the early-1800s, I was forced into slavery on the basis of my skin color. Even after my escape from the slave state of Maryland to the free northern state of New York, I still encountered discrimination and racism in almost all aspects of my life. This was the story for almost
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Those who held majority rule over the nation since 1607 are now being overruled by the former minority. Non-white Christian males have been successfully assimilated into the United States, so now we crave power. It took 210 years before an African-American was elected to the office of President, and now it is time for another. One who fights for those who can’t fight. Those who have been negatively treated since their entrance into the world. Those who’ve been labeled as “thugs”, “terrorists,” or “whores” by the ones who have have been actual thugs, terrorists, and whores. Those who were silenced before or after they were able to speak up. I fight for you because right is of no sex, truth is of no color, god is the Father of us all, and we are all

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