Read the following excerpts and consider the use of explicit and implicit rhetoric in these two excerpts. In a one-to-two paragraph response, evaluate the use and effectiveness of explicit and implicit discourse in these excerpts. In your opinion, which of these two excerpts conveys the author’s point of view more effectively to the reader? Can you identify examples of implicit and explicit claims? Cite evidence from the text to support your response. This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish. Let me spell out precisely what I mean by that, for the heart of the matter is here, and the root of my dispute with my country. You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. . . . You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.
(from "My Dungeon Shook" by James Baldwin)

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon of hope to millions of slaves, who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the colored America is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the colored American is still sadly crippled by the manacle of segregation and the chains of discrimination.
(from the "I Have a Dream" speech by Martin Luther King Jr.)