For example when he says that his white professor told him this, “Well, but … you’re not really black, I mean, you’re not disadvantaged” Steele responds with,” In his mind my lack of victim status disqualified me from the race itself, More recently I was complimented by a black student for speaking rationally correct English, “proper” English as he put it.” The professor says,” But I don’t really want to talk to you like that,” he went on “why not?” I asked “because then I wouldn’t be black no more.” Another example of logos in which Steele uses reasoning to describe the black middle class is when he says,” The black middle class has always defined its class identity by means of positive images gleaned from middle and upper class white society and by means of negative images of lower- class …show more content…
Steele says, “Emmett was killed and grotesquely mutilated for supposedly looking at or whistling at a white women. Oh, how we probed his story, finding in his youth and Northern upbringings the quintessential embodiment of black innocence, brought down by a white evil so portentous and apocalyptic, so gnarled and hideous, that it left us with a felling not far from awe. By telling story and others like it, we came to feel the immutability of our victimization, its utter indigenousness, as a thing on this earth like dirt or sand or