African American Criticism To Critique The Speech Of Fredrick Douglas's Speech In Faneuil Hall

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In this paper I will be using the African American Criticism to critique the speech of Fredrick Douglas 1849, speech in Faneuil Hall [on Henry Clay 's gradual emancipation plan and role of American Colonization Society. This text has the tenets and overtone of the African American criticism which makes it the perfect text to use for this criticism. The major thing that this speech does is help change the fundamental ways in which not only the country, but the world views racism. In this paper I will use the three terms from the African American criticism to show how this paper encompasses the ideologies and tenets of what the African American criticism is about. Those three terms are the institutionalized racism, voice of color, and double consciousness/double vision. These terms are a constant overtone through Douglas’s speech to combat the idea that racism is not something you are born with but something that you are taught and developed over time. In the eyes of the people the church is one place you are spared from judgment and critique. It is the one place you should feel safe, to express your thoughts and opinions, pray to the higher power in which you believe and your faith resides and be free of society qualms, demands, and realism. In a part …show more content…

His rhetorical strategies are effective in providing logical, credible, and impotence reason as to why someone cannot be born with prejudice. Whether we all agree or not prejudice is alive and strong in today’s society and Douglass and other Civil Rights activist who has fought against would turn in their graves to know that America’s society has regressed instead of progress on moving forward on the issue of prejudice. However, Douglass compelling arguments stand to prove that prejudice in society should not exist because it can be overcome and I support his

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