Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States, and also the first Black American to live in the white house. Being the President you have a lot of influence in politics and in the media. In 2013 there has been a debate about the George Zimmerman’s verdict. Zimmerman had fatally shot a 17-year old Black American boy named Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman’s excuse about the shooting was because he felt threatened by the black teen. Being a black American himself, president Obama had to stand up. He made a speech to extend sympathy for Trayvon’s family and clarify the African American Community’s wishes, and gives his audience advice for what they have to do, to avoid the prejudices without distinction in the future.
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From the start we get a private message from President’s family, which shows that they care and feel pain about the whole situation. As we go further in the speech he mentions himself as he talks about Trayvon Martin, and compares it to, if it was himself or his own son. “When Trayvon Martin was first shot I said that this could be my own son, another way of saying that is T. Martin could have been me 35 years ago” – He shows sympathy by saying he’s “one of them”, and he even references to himself because it could have happened to anyone and even himself. Obama is using the appeal Pathos by appealing to emotions, and tries to convince his audience of an argument by creating an emotional response. Obama wants to give a personal statement on the issue of the T. Martin ruling. The way he does that is he presents himself in the situation, and he uses a lot of the appeal ethos because he demonstrate credibility to the audience by being persuasive. How he persuades the audience is when he points out if the scenario was reversed and it was Trayvon who killed the white man, the situation would have been different. Another persuasive is when he points out …show more content…
As a president of the United States he must use a properly language, because he’s a big influence for a lot people. By using his formally vocabulary he’s sounds very trustworthy. To make a difference about the racial bias, he need to use it, or else people wouldn’t “buy” it. No one would trust him, if he was unreliable and didn’t know what he was talking about. The speech is not only for the professional press and audience in the white house, but also people at home in America, he needs to use a properly and a understandable language to convince every single people, that everyone can make a difference in the topic of Black American people today. The way he talks to his audience is very humble, he talks to them as he have been knowing everyone for years, he mentions also experiences from his earlier life before he was a senator “There are very few African American men in this country who haven’t had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me” and what he has been through as a colored president. “When I was in Illinois, I passed racial profiling
“African America community …show more content…
From the start we get a private message from President’s family, which shows that they care and feel pain about the whole situation. As we go further in the speech he mentions himself as he talks about Trayvon Martin, and compares it to, if it was himself or his own son. “When Trayvon Martin was first shot I said that this could be my own son, another way of saying that is T. Martin could have been me 35 years ago” – He shows sympathy by saying he’s “one of them”, and he even references to himself because it could have happened to anyone and even himself. Obama is using the appeal Pathos by appealing to emotions, and tries to convince his audience of an argument by creating an emotional response. Obama wants to give a personal statement on the issue of the T. Martin ruling. The way he does that is he presents himself in the situation, and he uses a lot of the appeal ethos because he demonstrate credibility to the audience by being persuasive. How he persuades the audience is when he points out if the scenario was reversed and it was Trayvon who killed the white man, the situation would have been different. Another persuasive is when he points out …show more content…
As a president of the United States he must use a properly language, because he’s a big influence for a lot people. By using his formally vocabulary he’s sounds very trustworthy. To make a difference about the racial bias, he need to use it, or else people wouldn’t “buy” it. No one would trust him, if he was unreliable and didn’t know what he was talking about. The speech is not only for the professional press and audience in the white house, but also people at home in America, he needs to use a properly and a understandable language to convince every single people, that everyone can make a difference in the topic of Black American people today. The way he talks to his audience is very humble, he talks to them as he have been knowing everyone for years, he mentions also experiences from his earlier life before he was a senator “There are very few African American men in this country who haven’t had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me” and what he has been through as a colored president. “When I was in Illinois, I passed racial profiling