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What Is Fear? Rhetoric and the News

In the classical system of rhetoric, there are three principals: public speech; the legal or forensic speech, and the political of deliberative speech (p.3). Using these principals, I respond in my own words to rhetoric.


November 2016: Donald J. Trump is elected as President of the United States

FutureCast 2016: The black community was in shock when Donald J. Trump announced he would immediately look into reparations as he was concerned about a conversation with friend and supporter Dennis Rodman. Trump said, “The Blacks and Native Americans have been treated badly by a system run by the left and democrats who didn’t bother to take care of their local cities, districts and states. Look at Michigan (water); Minnesota (state agencies not hiring POC, wealth/education gaps) and Chicago (murders). That ends today.”