February 26 2024

What is interesting between these two speeches is James Baldwin stated despite the fact they have citizenship they would never be able to receive the same treatment as whites. Kind of ironic isn’t it. In the first part of the speech it was stated that “you’re rooting for Gary but what shocking is he’s killing the Indians and the Indians are you”. I feel that that statement alone shows despite the face we’re rooting for Americans, they’re turning their backs on us. While William Buckley stated this is all false and that America has treated them like an American citizen and when James Baldwin claimed about the cheap labor and having to pick cotton to the market William Buckley responded with the fact that whites can also have the same wages as him. The Debate behind these two is James Baldwin stated it has been 100 years since the 15th amendment if civil rights isn’t honored then I don’t know how it’s honored now. While William Buckley said it was necessary and we are making this process faster for them. A Ethos that James Balwin had stated would be “by the time you see this happening in your daughter, your son, your niece or your nephew. You are 30 by now and nothing you have done has helped you to escape the trap”. Another Logos would be “One of the things the white world does not know is that black people are just like everybody else. We are also mercenaries, dictators and liars”. While for William Buckley a pathos would be “shall we descend on it and uproot all the literature that depends on the teachings of Pathos and Aristotle because they justified slavery”. The Pathos for him would be “What should James Baldwin be doing other than telling us to re announce our civilization he should be addressing his people and urging them to take advantage of those opportunities which do exist”.