Assertion Analysis #2

The point that Malcolm X is trying to convey in this quote is that people are not truly living in a society where everyone is free, but chained by the words and actions of the people. He proclaims that people and even himself is victim of America. When he uses that word victim it expands from just someone who was harmed to a people that are being down-class from society. He uses many words of diction in that quote. Another one is nightmare, when people came to this country many expressed this country to be a free nation however for the black man or colored; it was not a free nation. So instead of the Colored people having a dream they have to live in this nightmare were they are the victims. So his tone and diction really take this quote from just being a regular quote to a quote with passion and determination to pursue freedom.