Read and annotate the article below from the Los Angeles Times. Then, do the rhetorical square and turn that in. What you turn in does not have to be in the shape of a square; the parts of the square can simply be listed if that is easier. However, be sure all four parts of the square are fully addressed.
Additionally, give two examples for each of these terms: logos, pathos and ethos. For each example, connect it to the author’s purpose. In other words, why did the author choose that fact or that appeal to emotion? How did that fact help her accomplish her purpose?
What you turn in should look like this:Rhetorical square: Purpose: (Fill this in for all four) Argument: Persona: Audience:
(2 examples for each)Rhetorical strategies: Logos Example: Connection to purpose: Logos Example: Connection to purpose: Pathos Example: Connection to purpose: Pathos Example: Connection to purpose: Ethos Example: Connection to purpose: Ethos Example: Connection to purpose:
Op-Ed: Juneteenth celebrates an illusion of the liberation of Black people. I was raised on this reality.By Tamara Winfrey-HarrisJune 19, 2020
3:05 AM
Today, Black communities around the country are celebrating Juneteenth, a holiday marking June 19, 1865, the day Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation that had abolished slavery more than two years before. The holiday is ingrained in Texas and Southern culture and is recognized in 47 of the 50 United States.
But this year\u2019s celebration is different: It comes as America wakes up to the fact that the liberation of Black people is incomplete.
As a Black child, I was raised on this reality. When my father believed his middle-class children had forgotten the skin we were in, he would warn, \u201cYou all think you are free.\u201d He was born in rural Mississippi during the Great Depression. The state was careless with his life from the beginning, failing to even record his name, Joseph Nathaniel Winfrey; instead his birth certificate read \u201cBoy.\u201d He grew up with his parents and nine siblings on 350 family-owned acres in the tin-roofed house they built. Life revolved around cotton.
There was little racial violence in pre-civil rights Kilmichael, Miss., not because white folks were benevolent, my father says, but \u201cbecause Black people followed the separate but unequal rules. People went along with the system and we survived within the system.\u201d There were rules for staying alive, \u201csame as we teach Black children today how to act\u201d to try to \u201csurvive the police.
Some of those rules were: Never go to a white person\u2019s front door \u2014 only the side. Always enter the town movie theater from the alley and sit only in the balcony. Do not exercise your right to vote. Send your children to the one-room school for Blacks with the hand-me-down books. \u201cWhen I was taking algebra,\u201d my father remembers, \u201cI got to a certain page and had to borrow someone else\u2019s book because my pages were torn out.\u201d
The most important rule was that whiteness was supreme and demanded deference. My grandfather tipped his hat to white men and called them \u201cMr.\u201d In return, they called him “\u2019Lonzo,\u201d for Alonzo. \u201cWhite folks wouldn\u2019t go to church with you when you were living,\u201d Daddy says, but sometimes, \u201cIf they liked you, they might come to your funeral.\u201d
Black people still have rules to survive the racist system that limits our liberty. Our lack of freedom looks different from that of our forefathers and mothers, but it is bondage just the same.
White Americans still demand deference. A Black birdwatcher cannot ask a white woman to leash her dog without the threat of arrest. Racially motivated laws that restrict access to voting and aggressive voter purging threaten Black Americans\u2019 right to participate in the civic process. More than 65 years years after Brown vs. Board of Education, our public schools remain largely separate and unequal, leading to vast gaps in achievement.
In the midst of today\u2019s COVID-19 pandemic, Black Americans are three times more likely to die (Links to an external site.) from the disease than white people. One in three Black men (Links to an external site.) will do prison time, and Black girls are the fastest-growing segment (Links to an external site.) in the juvenile justice system. Black people are 2.5 times more likely to be killed by police (Links to an external site.)than their white counterparts.
Just weeks ago, a quarantined nation watched a Black man, George Floyd, slowly die under the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer and the indifferent gaze of his colleagues. For hundreds of years, America has not cared to change the racist system that resulted in Floyd\u2019s killing. But it did watch his funeral (Links to an external site.).
This is liberation?
Since 1865, Black people have been gaslighted. America has gripped our chains and, in a cruel sleight of hand, pretended its fists were empty. Black freedom is, in the words of Harlem Renaissance writer Ralph Ellison, a \u201cgaudy illusion.\u201d Juneteenth is more illustrative of the enduring hope of an oppressed people than an observance of Black emancipation.
My father recalls of Black life in the Jim Crow South, \u201cWe didn\u2019t give a lot of thought to the fact that we were not free; we just knew that we were not.\u201d African Americans still know this. So we scream, march, demand and hope.
Over recent weeks, corporations and media conglomerates have admitted their complicity in systemic racism. The country is reconsidering policing, an institution that grew in the South (Links to an external site.) from a desire to protect the slave system and human chattel. Monuments to Confederates and racists are coming down. And American streets are teeming with protesters chanting, \u201cBlack Lives Matter.\u201d
\u201cI\u2019ve never seen so many white people marching, and I\u2019ve been watching these things for a long time,\u201d my father, now in his 85th year, tells me. \u201cChange is coming, I think.\u201d
This could be true. America may be ready to trade white supremacy for Black equality. Or this moment could be more gaudy illusion. The country rarely misses an opportunity to disappoint its Black citizens. Less than a week after George Floyd was laid to rest in Houston, police shot and killed Rayshard Brooks, another unarmed Black man, in Atlanta, after responding to a complaint that he had fallen asleep in line at a Wendy\u2019s drive-through.
More Black death. More oppression. More constriction.
America loves a performance \u2014 especially a staging of democracy. But florid corporate statements never freed anybody. Performance is not policy. Yet Black men who grew up picking cotton, calling white men \u201cMr.\u201d and reading torn books, remain hopeful. Maybe today America is ready to make good on that hope with real emancipation and freedom for all.
Tamara Winfrey-Harris is the author of \u201cThe Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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