In the following excerpt from a speech, President Obama describes three situations that he claims most African American men have experienced. Why does he use these examples? There are very few African American men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me. There are very few African American men who haven't had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. That happens to me—at least before I was a senator. There are very few African Americans who haven't had the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off. That happens often. And you know, I don't want to exaggerate this, but those sets of experiences inform how the African American community interprets what happened one night in Florida.
—Barack Obama, Remarks on the George Zimmerman trial, The White House. Washington, D. C., July 19, 2013.
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to prove that he has been the victim of racial discrimination

to illustrate that racism is still part of life for African Americans

to persuade the reader that fear based on how a person looks is unjustified

to illustrate the importance of context when trying to understand a person's point of view