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In this article, the author argues that Obama’s speech after the Zimmerman verdict also signaled a change on how Obama addressed Black audiences. In short, although Obama generally eschewed race after the Gates incident, his messaging to African Americans about race led him to become, as Ta-Nehisi Coates called him, the “scold of Black America.”
221 years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America's improbable experiment in democracy.
For eight years Barack Obama walked on ice and never fell. Nothing in that time suggested that straight talk on the facts of racism in American life would have given him surer footing.
11 Νοε 2021 · One hundred and twenty-eight years after Frederick Douglass’ critique regarding the treatment of recently emancipated Black people, America elected its first Black president—Barack H. Obama—and many wondered, if only fleetingly, whether that ‘old dragon,’ racism, was dead.
In this framework, this article examines the semiotic and rhetorical mechanisms by which Obama’s race speech builds a mutual identification between Blacks and Whites. It also looks at how he constructs his own identity in order to appeal to a racially and politically heterogeneous audience.
