Racism Or How The Pot Call The Kettle Black Rhetorical Analysis

Author Stanley Fish uses the three rhetorical appeals to support his argument throughout his article “Racism or How the Pot Call the Kettle Black”. Fish expresses in his article how different races have to live with their historical disadvantage throughout society, and how people who were victimized and tortured because of their race have earned their freedom and civil liberties. He goes on by implying that the hole concept of “reverse racism” is non-existent rather just another issue of what people of race/ ethnicity have to deal with due to their history with racism.

Fish uses the appeal of pathos many times throughout his argument. In “A Key Distinction” Fish discusses the history behind racism when he writes, “... to limit access to educational institutions, to prevent entry into the economy except at the lowest most menial levels…” Here he is using pathos by sympathetically expressing the setbacks people of race and ethnicity had to deal with throughout their life. Later on in “A Key Distinction” he sets an example argument by

In this scenario he gives, student A is rejected and student B is admitted. He uses logical reasoning by expanding on this example as he goes on to say that all sorts of aspects weigh in on one's admission that have “brought students to this point” such as one's cultural and economic status. Another example shown in “A Tilted playing field” Fish discusses how, “White or Asian students denied admission to colleges and universities even though their SAT scores were higher than the scores of some other-- often African Americans-- who were admitted to the same institution.” However he implies later on how statistics show how test scores are not alone but everything also correlates with one's income base and socioeconomic