Ethos Pathos And Logos By Brent Staples Essay

In the article Black Men and Public Spaces, Brent Staples uses the persuasive appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos to prove to the audience that he, and many other black men can be victimized solely due to being falsely perceived as a threat. He manipulates logos by the experience he has faced through stories, Staples manages to prove his credibility by ethos and prove that he can be falsely judged and use pathos to make the audience feel pity and sorrow for him and other black men who are profiled negatively. All of these persuasive appeals proposes that when others are scared of men who claims no threat, there is a chance of death.
Staples uses ethos throughout the entire article, the presence of ethos is mostly in the form of his status and as being a black man. Throughout the essay, we see his stature as he talks of his journalism career. “...the 1970s and early 1980s, when I worked as a journalist in Chicago”( 8), or how he was a “graduate student newly arrived at the university of Chicago” (2).
Whenever he uses information of his status he creates a trustable relationship with the audience as he has achieved many things and therefore, is worthy of being trusted as we believe that he has the knowledge from being in those places to tell us the truth. The second way he uses ethos is by explaining his childhood and
He shows that almost any black man can become victimized no matter their stature or even if they are a pacifist and how they can end up in trouble. He kindles the reader’s emotion for not being able to be himself or to be able to walk the street at night and without being appeared as a threat. Staples also uses logos to explain that many of the fears in people are very sensible, but in the end, can still endanger his