TA’NEHISI COATES CONSTRUCTED A LOGICAL ARGUMENT IN HIS ESSAY CASE FOR REPARATIONS BY EMPLOYING THE USE OF ARISTOTELIAN APPEAL LOGOS, AND RHETORICALLY PROVING TO AN AUDIENCE THE PREMISES OF HIS ARGUMENT FOR REPARATIONS. COATES USES LOGOS TO ASSIST IN EMPLOYING CONSISTENCY, CLARITY, AND THE LOGIC BEHIND HIS ARGUMENT. MOREOVER, THIS APPEAL ALLOWS COATES TO CONNECT WITH THE INTELLECTS OF HIS AUDIENCE.
• Title:
“Case” suggests to the audience that the evidence that will be brought forward as evidence will be logical.
• Quotes:
1. Coates opens with a quote stated by John Locke which appeals to the logic of his argument. “ in which case he who hath received any damage, has, besides the right of…show more content… “ 1860, slaves as an asset were worth more than all of the American manufacturing, railroad and production”– Yale Historian, David W. Blight.
3. “Negro poverty is not white poverty”– President Johnson
• Historical Facts: 250 year timeline (laws backed by the U. S government)
1. 1920’s Kleptocracy/Jim Crow– coded laws
2. Penal System/Debt Peonage– “free forced labor”
3. 1860 “Antebellum America”--
4. Discriminatory Lending/Housing Policies/FHA (1934)-- denial of loans, redlining, homeowners– predatory contracts.
5. Denial of Education/ Brown vs Board of Education
* He also mentioned lynching, brutality, and family partings which destroyed the nuclear black family.
• Statistics and Cited Facts:
1. 1701, Virgin Assembly passed a law for the dismemberment of unruly slaves.
2. 1840, cotton production constituted 59% of the country's exports, also extending across the Atlantic.
3. 1935, Social Security Act– 65% of Blacks were ineligible, 70-80% were in the south.
4. 2010, Wells Fargo controversial: “mud people, ghetto loans” predatory loans— 71% was in Black neighborhoods.
5. 2011, Bank of America settled charges by paying “350
