type ii speech questions

who is speaking?
Malcolm X

why was this speech important?
It is talking about the relationship between white and black people and how they should be aware of each other and because of that awareness the success that can come from it.

why do i find it interesting?
not only do i think the content reflected an interesting opinion about civil rights i like the way he talks.

what is the emotion/mode/tone/feeling/personality of the speech?
It is passionate but very direct. It has a serious tone and has a conversation feeling. Like he's talking to someone not to an audience.

what is loud/stressed/soft/paused/emphasized?
The words "white people" and the vices that he lists. At the ending there is a lot of emphasis on the words being listed.

how does it make me feel and the audience feel?
Well at the beginning someone laughs but the people listening probably believed completely in what he was saying as if it were a sermon. I think what he was saying was a good solution to the problems that were happening. He was very well spoken and it is reflected in the speech.

bio of malcolm x...
African American civil rights leader Malcolm X was a major twentieth-century spokesman for black nationalism. Unlike many other African American leaders of this time, who supported nonviolent methods, Malcolm X believed in using more aggressive measures in the fight for civil rights.