First, Malcolm X uses many different ways to intensify, or make his argument look good. He repetitively stresses the fact that Negroes are not welcome in the United States. "Everything that came out of Europe, every blue-eyed thing, is already an American. And as long as I have been over here, we aren't Americans yet." This, with out a doubt, makes his argument look good. He also says that his ancestors

He directly downplays certain points to better exemplify is argument, one of these being violence. He repetitively mentions the "ballot or the bullet", the bullet being the primary support. Stereotypically, many of the blacks that live in the city perform crimes that anger the American people. This causes the people to further segregate the Negroes from our society for fear that one day they could harm us. Malcolm X explains that the "bullet" represents taking an action, not necessarily a violent one, against the country. Still, the idea of the "bullet", to the average person, hints violence. He downplays this idea, still appealing to the black population, and hopefully to some of the white.

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