Oh my goodness. This is so important! To have just read an article about the bias within the criminal justice system in Baltimore in particular. She alludes to that fact that there were some things that were happening within the municipal system that made so many people feel uncomfortable, and actually targeted.

I am absolutely speechless.

We Americans need to be empathetic to the fact that countries within Southwest Asia are experiencing what seems like more than they can handle for the most part. I appreciate that the author included these facts.

Once again the description is heart-wrenching. For parents to be unable to identify their children must be the absolute worst feeling in the world. It attests to the fact that their identity had not even had the chance to be developed yet. Also, the way he is including these facts in their entirety almost makes the audience even more upset at Iraq's health minister as she was the one who claimed responsibility in her resignation.

Though this is fact, it was important for the author to include this. It appeals to pathos because the imagery within the description is triggering. "Charred incubators" sends a dagger to the soul because the children were absolutely innocent and didn't get a chance at life. The way he described it was absolutely unbiased and fact as it should have been.

I am particularly curious as to why when something terrible happens, many leaders in place resign rather than provide a new solution. I would be more interested to read about why she resigned and whether she was fit for the job or just resigned on account of this horrific incident.

It is important to read news from around the world because it is so easy to be consumed by the new happening within the country that there is a lack of compassion and an abundance of ignorance (and misinformation) towards other countries. We are a world system and need to be actively apart of the system.

In this article, it is the most, THE MOST important to include resident testimony and emotion. It appeals to pathos as it should because this is a social justice mega-issue. Where a population feels invalidated, they need validation after being correct.

I am unsure as to why it took so long to have an investigation. Was there not enough probable cause? I think it is important that they opened an investigation because it puts so many frustrations for people of color in Baltimore to rest, but almost instills more fears as to what the system that was established to protect and serve is doing to purposely counter that.

This quite disheartening to have the expectation. For audiences that are not people of color, I would be interested to hear their reaction. For myself as a black woman, I feel that same as Ray Kelly with the expectation. For others, that may not be the same.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg is a pulitzer prize winning journalist for the New York Times, an award winning newspaper. Her focus is primarily on social justice and civil rights.

http://sites.allegheny.edu/news/2013/10/22/pulitzer-prize-winning-journalist-sheryl-gay-stolberg-to-speak-on-a-reporters-journey-through-washington/

Since this was an accident, I personally feel for the officer. I appreciate that the author included this in the article because it makes the officer involved human rather than a destructive careless monster. This also adds to the authors ethos and the audiences pathos.

This definitely attests to her caring personality. This article is appropriate for the people who are mourning and respecting Knowlton's legacy. This article was well written to address the facts but of course there will probably need to be more investigation so the family can get closure.

This shows compassion from the department to take care of the people there since this was an unfortunate accident. People were there because they wanted to be and that shows compassion from the community, so reciprocating that is important.

This gives them some defense. I like that he includes this fact. Without stating their successes, the article would focus on this particular mistake and be perceived as biased by readers.

They were "blank guns", but they were real guns which is another issue. When simulating, the use of real guns may not be necessary.

I understand that these people are human just like any other person who is doing a job and they are bound to make mistakes. However, there is a sense of carelessness in this part because a person could have checked for live ammo.

This quite ironic in a tragic way. Here, McLaughlin is appealing to pathos by including the reason she went and further on, having someone else speak on her behalf.

Elliot McLaughlin has been a reporter with CNN for over 10 years. CNN is a revered news outlet.

I don't agree with this argument completely. In this day and age of social media, I rarely connect with some of my closest friends when I am busy or just not in the mood. Not a substantial enough argument to me based off of personal experience but definitely something to think about.

Here is somewhat of an explanation of him not thinking significant things about the day. He admitted to being high and not in his sober state of mind. He didn't associate anything significant with the day because the day was not significant yet.

I appreciate that Koenig shares her thoughts as well. She is a journalist and gives a good amount of her opinion but does her best to keep it informative without bias. She expressed a thought that the audience may have and she is connecting with them--this is her appealing to pathos. However, the logic is somewhat sketchy to me. Though she feels like he would go throughout the day with a fine tooth comb after being accused and convicted, she advocated in the first episode that it was difficult for people to remember things that happened 6 weeks ago let alone 14 years. Seems kind of inconsistent in my opinion. If she feels this way, wouldn't this challenge to the entire case be in jeopardy with his lack of accurate or adequate memory? Wouldn't he incriminate himself? Shouldn't she be worried about that?

Reasonably is a keyword for me as the prosecution has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Adnan is guilty. Right away, she is adding to her credibility because she is explicitly saying that she is going to give information. She isn't holding anything back and she recognizes that there IS possible evidence against him. (Because I haven't read further), if she decides to "debunk" this evidence, she will appeal to the audience that believes that Adnan is innocent, and appeal to the skeptical audience.

This part is particularly questionable because if he was as innocent as he is projecting, he would have gone through every detail of that day with certainty to ensure that there was no detail was missed, not just "probably there.

Her Sarah is alluding to the fact of his conviction as convincing and she is convinced.

To use actual evidence contributes to her credibility as an author and investigator.

As stated before, the prosecution attempted to challenge his "good" image because they are aware they sometimes teens lives away from their parents knowledge.

This is important. For the people who believe that he is innocent, this is part of their reasonable doubt that he would commit the crime. However, good reputations are often the easiest to break down and so they should be careful about stating how "good" he was.

Why after this amount of time is she going to reinvestigate this crime? She doesn't personally know him or have anything vested in it so far.

Before she even states her entire claim, she makes a point about how difficult it is to account for time in insignificant periods of someone's life. Further into the podcast, she uses her nephew as an example/as evidence for this supporting claim. She is using real life examples to establish some credibility and pathos for the audience because they can relate.

The Alibi give foresight to what some of this particular episode will be about.

deBoer, Frederik. "Admitting that White Privilege Helps You is Really Just Congratulating Yourself." The Washington Post 28 Jan. 2016. Web. 8 Aug 2016.

A solution is being alluded to here, but a solution that may not be enacted.

Perfect way to articulate this. Here he is addressing his audience, those who are interested in the topic and those who fall under the category of boasting privileged people.

Very much so agree. Here, deBoer is addressing the hypocrisy and stagnancy of self-recognition within white privilege that retains white supremacy. When the oppressed are heard when they voice their dissatisfaction with oppression, it is deemed as their duty to do such: it is their job to fight for their rights. However, if a privileged person recognizes their role in oppression, they are praised for doing such just as they were unconsciously praised for not to anything...because that's the way that privilege works.

Well articulated. As he further states within his article, the form of "self-indictment" places the "guilty" on a pedestal of approval and "self-regard".

Liberation for the liberated and oppression for the oppressed it seems like. In other words, the self-awareness made him feel liberated in such a redundant way that it wouldn't make a difference if he proudly boasted as someone who does not have privilege and equality is attainable by all. Either way, nothing really changes.

I agree. The question there here would be what can the privileged to acknowledge, yet not boast in self awareness, about their privilege.

Acknowledging the side that he is going to criticize for its legitimacy gives him some credibility.

This is his claim. I am using this perspective because it differs so much from any other perspective. There is the audience that altogether does not acknowledge that white-privilege exists. There is the audience like myself that pushes for white privilege recognition. And there is his perspective that disapproves of both so far.

Fredrik deBoer is "writer and a researcher who works at the intersection of writing assessment, applied linguistics and literacy education." He receives his authority from an institution of learning to write his opinion for public consumption. http://purdue.academia.edu/FredrikdeBoer

Here he is providing clarity about why privilege is so significant and how it interconnects with societal norms that are comfortable and accessible "to an exclusive subset of a given population" i.e. heterosexuals or white people.

I am glad that he referenced Peggy Mcintosh because I referenced this particular work of hers as well for my essay. She does a great job of making it a point to speak from personal experience.

Here he establishes his claim in that privilege is something that a person is typically born into, in other words, something that was earned. I am still unsure of what he means by unearned privileges that are illegitimate. Perhaps he means that they are not legally recognized.

Much of his evidence comes from the research of others on the same topic and they are all credible sources. He uses many of them to get his point across.

True of all privileges, they are not earned but something that we are merely born into.

This brings up a good point about privilege and identity being interconnected.

This is the beginning of Monahan establishing credibility for himself. He wants readers to understand the full scope of privilege by starting from the origins of the word as it pertains to modern conceptualization. I also find this interesting myself and would not have thought to look up the origins of the word as supportive evidence as language had evolved so heavily.

This is important to note that privilege is not confined to a single identity and can be applied to each individual in a different form.

Monahan, Michael J. "The Concept of Privilege: A Critical Appraisal." South African Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 73-83. 2014. Web. 8 Aug 2016. Michael Monahan has received his degree in Philosophy and works for the department of philosophy for Marquette University.

Yes! They are addressing where this ideology in itself is an issue.

Neville conducted research in order to prove her ideas. This is important because without such research, her ideas could be considered subjective. Without evidence, there would be no valid argument.

This supports that claim that CBRI perpetuate racism because, though it may not be intended in all instances, they minimize the harmful effects of racial ideologies that have been instilled within different societies by completely ignoring them. Within the United States and outside of the United States, slavery existed. Slavery promoted the idea of white superiority by taking claim and owning members of perceived inferior races and treating them poorly to say the least on the basis of skin color alone (despite "biological evidence" which was later to be found as false). Members of the perceived inferior races experienced prejudice for decades after. The effects of slavery and those ideologies did not fade but simply redirected themselves into different systems such as the criminal justice system. The unfortunate truth is that race is a social construct based on subjective ideas and when analyzing a topic such as this, some may consider these to be subjective as well with subjective correlations.

I appreciate that this was included. As a person of color, sometimes the idea that one who identifies with the marginalized group is not affected by CBRI is a false notion.

STAKEHOLDER. Though other stakeholders have been introduce, this one in particular uses pathos. Children are innocent and we as adults have the duty to teach them correctly and correct any teachings that are harmful. By showing that children can be harmfully affected by CBRI, it creates more stakeholders including teachers and parents since they are responsible for them no matter whether they identify a part of the marginalized group.

Here they expand on their claim and are firm in their views.

Definitions are important. It creates clarity for the reader and (surprise) MORE credibility for the authors.

This is their claim. Color-Blind Racial Ideologies perpetuate racism and inequality by not acknowledging the "elephant in the room" of race. To be completely oblivious to race is impossible with European colonialism across the world.

Once again, further adding to the credibility and this time to the publication of the essay by citing it. However, this is a place to be very careful as not to suggest bias and lack of well roundedness of sources and perspectives from multiple publications which they have an abundance of.

Each of the authors have their PhD in psychology. They are well-versed and studied in the areas and have the authority to teach on this topic. It is important to note the significance of these professors from different universities collaborating on this essay. In addition, it is important to note the publication and its national recognition.

Great. Here they are establishing ethos/credibility to themselves by acknowledging the significance of psychology, which they all received their degrees in, as it pertains to this particular topic.

Neville, Helen et. al. "Color-Blind Racial Ideology: Theory, Training, and Measurement Implications in Psychology." American Psychological Association, Vol. 68, No. 6, Sept. 2013, pp. 455-466. Web. 8 Aug 2016.

Burnett, Megan. "On the Topic of White Privilege." Collegian. 7 Oct 2015. Web. 8 Aug 2016. Megan Burnett wrote for the CSU collegian in the Opinion section. There was much controversy after this article was published.

Here again we see meritocracy as we saw in the other article by Michael Monahan. As with the other two articles, she explains race-relation evasion.

This gives her the most credibility because she is taking personal experience to shed light on an issue that she does not directly experience herself. She is able to criticize her own identity and apply understanding and empathy to other identities.

She is comparing white privilege to male privilege. This is justifying her identity and authority to write this essay. Though she may not identify as holding a marginalized ethnicity, she does identify with a marginalized gender. She is attempting to make this topic more accessible to herself and to many of the readers who could be women.

Once again like the other articles there is recognition on interconnectedness between privilege and identity. The reason I chose this article is because of the personal testimony of white privilege. She is not denying or evading the fact that she holds a very prominent privilege.

Mcintosh, Peggy. "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack." White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women Studies. 1988. Web. 8 Aug 2016.

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