Racial Profiling Is A Bad Ide Rhetorical Analysis
Dewey Clark
Natalie Sartin
AFRS100
October 29, 2013
Rhetorical Essay In the United States of America racial discrimination still exists to this day. Minorities in our country are not seen as equal people. When a person is deprived of their human rights it makes them feel degraded and troubled. In order to become a more civilized country, we must forget the color of our own skin and live with each other as one. In the article “Why Racial Profiling is a Bad Idea” by Tom Head, discusses the way cops pay more attention to those of minority races and how they usually find them guilty of crimes they didn’t commit. Even though many officers will deny their participation in this type of profiling, a lot use this tactic to pull over and arrest Minority races. The article “Racial Profiling Lives On” by Devon Carbado, Cheryl Harris and Kimberle Crenshaw, also displays examples of how racial profiling continues to this day. There are many ways cops can search/arrest African Americans or other Minorities for no reason and still keep from breaking the Fourth Amendment and the authors of “Racial Profiling Lives On” supports there claims with emotional examples that appeal to a pathological type of audience. In the …show more content…
I believe that his use of rhetorical appeals are better displayed than the ones used in “Why Racial Profiling is a Bad Idea” by Devon Carbado, Cheryl Harris and Kimberle Crenshaw. This Article was more factual and supported each fact with examples and studies done in the past. Unlike the article “Racial Profiling Lives On”, this one is more believable due to the way he backs up his claims. Sometimes its good to listen to made up examples that express pathos ideas but logos writings tend to stand out more and grab the audience’s attention. Tom Head correctly uses a logical approach in this writing and conveys racial profiling as a negative way of doing
Natalie Sartin
AFRS100
October 29, 2013
Rhetorical Essay In the United States of America racial discrimination still exists to this day. Minorities in our country are not seen as equal people. When a person is deprived of their human rights it makes them feel degraded and troubled. In order to become a more civilized country, we must forget the color of our own skin and live with each other as one. In the article “Why Racial Profiling is a Bad Idea” by Tom Head, discusses the way cops pay more attention to those of minority races and how they usually find them guilty of crimes they didn’t commit. Even though many officers will deny their participation in this type of profiling, a lot use this tactic to pull over and arrest Minority races. The article “Racial Profiling Lives On” by Devon Carbado, Cheryl Harris and Kimberle Crenshaw, also displays examples of how racial profiling continues to this day. There are many ways cops can search/arrest African Americans or other Minorities for no reason and still keep from breaking the Fourth Amendment and the authors of “Racial Profiling Lives On” supports there claims with emotional examples that appeal to a pathological type of audience. In the …show more content…
I believe that his use of rhetorical appeals are better displayed than the ones used in “Why Racial Profiling is a Bad Idea” by Devon Carbado, Cheryl Harris and Kimberle Crenshaw. This Article was more factual and supported each fact with examples and studies done in the past. Unlike the article “Racial Profiling Lives On”, this one is more believable due to the way he backs up his claims. Sometimes its good to listen to made up examples that express pathos ideas but logos writings tend to stand out more and grab the audience’s attention. Tom Head correctly uses a logical approach in this writing and conveys racial profiling as a negative way of doing