Perspectives

Here, we will help you put Barack Obama’s remarks on Trayvon Martin in perspective…

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Current issues

When you discuss Obama’s speech related to Trayvon Martin’s shooting, you could focus on current issues related to racism in the United States.

African-American discrimination is still an important issue in the US. For instance, many African Americans live in poor neighborhoods and often do not have access to the same types of jobs and education accessible to white A…

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Textual perspective

It would be helpful to compare this speech with other speeches that deal with the same topic. For example, you could look at “A More Perfect Union” by Barack Obama. In this speech, much like in the remarks by the President on Trayvon Martin, Obama was responding to a difficult and controversial situation involving an African-American. However, the circumstances were also very different.

When he made the speech “A More Perfect Union”, Obama was running fo…