“I don’t think these leaders will be able to make a real dent in the Negro community in terms of swaying 22 million Negroes to this particular point of view. And I contend this cry of ‘Black Power’ is at bottom a reaction to the reluctance of white power to make the kind of changes necessary to make justice the reality for the Negro...I think we’ve got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard and what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear the economic plight of the Negro poor which has worsened over the last few years" -Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. believes that the current leaders of the country will not be of any help to the Negros. Nor will the future leaders. For if nothing is to change now, then nothing will change. For their to be a change in the Negro community, then thy must be heard. America has failed to hear them for so long, it's now the time for them to be heard. Martin Luther King Jr. is seeking for everyone to listen to them now, for they have failed to do so for so long. They have gone as far as rioting in order for their voice to be heard. They will no longer be neglected, and make themselves heard.
In this quotation MLK uses a lot of repetition, as well as using anaphora. He repeats negro a lot because he is speaking for all the Negros in America. He also tend to use the word Negro instead of African American because no one refers to them as African American because they don't acknowledge that they are Americans as well. He also uses anaphora by repeating the phrase "failed to hear." He uses it to emphasize more on the point he is trying to make, and if he were to be talking in a large group, the words that one repeats are always the words that one remembers, "Failed to hear" is one of the main points MLK Jr. is making about the Negro community. Martin Luther King Jr.'s tone throughout the quotation is serious, in order for people to understand that he matter that he us speaking of is very important.
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