Obama Speech Analysis

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In an overwhelming discourse tending to the occasions of a lethal shooting,”

Remarks on Trayvon Martin Ruling”, President Obama addresses racial treachery within the
nation and assures the citizens the subject was vital to him. Obama talks approximately
about his life as an individual of color in America, and how it affected him. He addresses the
fear of the citizens, specifically African American citizens’ and how he plans to move
forward in arranging to discharge a few of their pressure and bring consideration to
discrimination.

Within the discourse, Obama compares himself to Treyvon Martin. The way he talks
not as a president, not indeed as the first black president but as an African American man
who has dealt with the unfathomable. To begin with, in two sentences of section five when
Obama tenderly states “You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot I said that could've
been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago”
he sympathizes with individuals and humanizes himself. He compares his encounters with
that of Trayvon Martin’. As somebody within the most noteworthy level, he still faces
separation from peers and civilians. He emphasizes this afterward in section six-line one
“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” He
communicates to the people how he can relate to their struggles almost to show them that
they aren’t alone. Obama's choice to talk about his encounters makes a difference in his
frame of association with the gathering of people and makes them feel listened to by
somebody with shared encounters.

Following his discourse, Obama portrays his plans moving forward to guarantee that
he will do something to alter the current circumstance as the first black president. Obama
clarifies ”Precisely because law enforcement is often determined at the state and local level,
I think it would be productive for the Justice Department, governors, mayors to work with
law enforcement about training at the state and local levels to reduce the kind of mistrust in
the system that sometimes currently exists .” He offers an arrangement that reduces the
chances of comparable occasions happening once more. He promises the people that he
will take steps to move the state of the nation forward.

Obama goes on to clarify his past encounters with racial treachery when he says
“When I was in Illinois, I passed racial profiling legislation, and it did just two simple things.
One, it collected data on traffic stops and the race of the person who was stopped. But the
other thing was it resourced us training police departments across the state on how to think
about potential racial bias and ways to further professionalize what they were doing.” This
shows how he has worked towards settling racial issues in America. Obama successfully
recognizes his past activities as a representative and how he plans on moving forward to
get rid of racial bias.

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