Message to the grassroots

In Malcolm X's speech Message to the Grass Roots he addressed his opinion by using the compare and contrast methodology. In the opening of the speech Malcolm discusses the all to familiar house negro. He symbolically compares the house Negro's characteristics such as subservience complacency and accommodation to what he desired for his followers to believe. He wanted blacks to follow the thinking pattern of the field negro instead, showing favor to this position over the other. He was putting the field negro on a pedestal to his audience by appealing to the similarities of the field negro to the modern black American. He emphasized the work load and harshness of conditions for little reward which seemed to be the plague of racism. He denounced myths of the house negro being the smart one rather he was the "House Nigger" for a reason. By this comparison X was attempting to gain support on his end of the spectrum he did not want people to continue with the house negro or "we"mentality that served little good to not only the house negro but the modern black American as well.

In Malcolm X's speech Message to the Grass Roots he addressed his opinion by using the compare and contrast methodology. In the opening of the speech Malcolm discusses the all to familiar house negro. He symbolically compares the house Negro's characteristics such as subservience complacency and accommodation to what he desired for his followers to believe. He wanted blacks to follow the thinking pattern of the field negro instead, showing favor to this position over the other. He was putting the field negro on a pedestal to his audience by appealing to the similarities of the field negro to the modern black American. He emphasized the work load and harshness of conditions for little reward which seemed to be the plague of racism. He denounced myths of the house negro being the smart one rather he was the "House Nigger" for a reason. By this comparison X was attempting to gain support on his end of the spectrum he did not want people to continue with the house negro or "we"mentality that served little good to not only the house negro but the modern black American as well.