Kwame Kilpatrick

Kwame's closing remarks tried to pull the city together and get the media and press to lay off of him. Kwame uses ethos in the unscripted part of his speech to get the city to feel like and come together as "brothers and sisters" and to move passed the scandals that he has created, but yet to take the blame for. Kwame tries to appeal to emotion by making himself an innocent person while everyone else is out to lynch him. He feels insulted by all the death threats he has received and does not believe that people should have any reason at all to hate him. He does not seem to remember the scandals he was involved in. So, he uses ethos to make the reader feel sorry for him and the position he is in. He appeals to the city by saying that his wife and children are in danger and the ethos in his speech lessens people anger because the people feel like they are doing something wrong to Kwame's family. The diction and description he uses in the statement "This unethical, illegal lynch mob mentality has to stop" blames the people of Detroit for the current political problems Detroit currently has. The words unethical and illegal describe the type of mob mentality the city currently has, which make Kwame's speech accusatory and help shift the blame off him. Using lynch is diction , to tell the city that this has gone far enough and that it needs to stop. The word lynching makes the city feel they are to blame.