Tortuga is Reckless?

Rhetorical analysis is defined in lay-man’s terms as a breakdown of something whole into smaller easier to understand portions. Then those portions are basically picked apart and, of course, analyzed; analyzed in ways such that the piece can be better understood in the intentions of the author or speaker. Did the speaker intend to persuade their audience to their point of view? Did the speaker intend to inform the audience rather than persuasion of a topic itself?

Humans themselves are very deep intellectually even if they do not know or understand that. To me rhetorical analysis is a skill used to further apprehend the workings of a human’s mental abilities.

This may not seem serious but even an amateur video group, that creates webcasts of a sort to explain their opinion in very odd methods, can have a deeper meaning in the videos that they create. RecklessTortuga is the name a YouTube group that creates videos, most that involve the difficulties or irritations of the people of today and racism.

A video that they made in light of Obama becoming President-Elect is titled “Racism in the Media”, a parody of how some newscasters seem to gravitate any and all questions towards certain ethnic groups. It’s easy to know what I mean by ‘certain’ ethnic groups. In this video the news reporter, Lynda Wahker, continues to direct all questions to the single African American located in the group; a mockery of what some new s stations have may indirectly appeared to be doing. Racism is not the only subject they touch upon, they too make light on the past surges of foreclosures on homes across the United States by stating beneath that Apple bought the White House after it was foreclosed on.

This video along with many others are not there to accuse people but to present in a more round-about way how ridiculous the current situations may be. Their goal was not to persuade people to agree with them.

Call it what you will, a gag video, a parody, or other such synonyms, this video is still something that can be rhetorically analyzed further if enough effort was poured into it. A silly topic this may be yet it is something often overlooked as nothing significant to be intellectually evaluated in the slightest. In my opinion this is how I perceive rhetorical analysis to be.