Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address."
Unlike those of my ancestry, the Negro's unemployment rate is triple the national average. The mortality rate of his children is twice that of white children. He often pays more for his miserable tenement than comparable space will cost in the white suburbs. He is likely to pay more for his groceries, mor% for his furniture, more for his liquor, and more for his credit. And my fellow Americans, today many thousands of black Americans return from Vietnam with medals of valor. Some of them have been crippled in the service of their country. But too often they return to economic and social circumstances that are barely, if at all, improved over those they left.
Is it any wonder that the Negro questions whether his place in our country's history books will be any less forgotten than were the contributions of his ancestors? Is it any wonder that the Negroes find it hard to wait another 100 vears before they are accepted as full citizens in our
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Which technique does Inouye use to strengthen an appeal?
O He uses allusion to appeal to timeliness.
O He uses metaphor to appeal to authority.
• He uses antithesis to appeal to emotion.
O He uses rhetorical questions to appeal to logic.
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