Janiyah Belfor
Critical Analysis on “ Defining Racism: “Can We Talk” Beverly Daniels Tatum’s “Defining Racism: “ Can We Talk”, published in 2003, explains that racism and prejudice still exist in today’s world and are not just something of the past. Many people are left in the dark about the daily racist situations that occur in the world and covered by the media. From what I understood from the article it is everyone's job to get their own understanding on racism and what it is today. Tatum would like people to recognize that racism still exist and it should be stopped. While Tatum’s evidence is relevant and her tone is clear, she unfortunately included a logical fallacy. Based on Tatum’s subject and word choice in the article I would …show more content…
Tatum does not simply state her opinion repeatedly, she gives reasons to support her claims. Her evidence appeared to be very relevant because it pertained to the topic of racism and the different matters she was pointing out. For example, Tatum made a claim that racism still exist in the world. She then follows that claim with examples of the racist occurrences that have happened and says, “events such as the Rodney King Beating, the Charles Stuart and Susan cases, the O.J. Simpson trial…” (Tatum, 2003, para 1). Just from that example of evidence I can say Tatum’s evidence individually was sufficient because she did not only include one occurrence of racism to back her claim, she included many. As far as all the evidence as a whole it was sufficient as well because every claim Tatum made was followed with evidence and never lacking. Accuracy is important when incorporating evidence in an article and Tatum definitely provided accurate evidence. Her evidence was mostly fact based because she takes real life examples aka testimonial evidence. In example, Tatum uses a discussion she once had with a student about cleopatra to point out the lack of knowledge the student had on
Critical Analysis on “ Defining Racism: “Can We Talk” Beverly Daniels Tatum’s “Defining Racism: “ Can We Talk”, published in 2003, explains that racism and prejudice still exist in today’s world and are not just something of the past. Many people are left in the dark about the daily racist situations that occur in the world and covered by the media. From what I understood from the article it is everyone's job to get their own understanding on racism and what it is today. Tatum would like people to recognize that racism still exist and it should be stopped. While Tatum’s evidence is relevant and her tone is clear, she unfortunately included a logical fallacy. Based on Tatum’s subject and word choice in the article I would …show more content…
Tatum does not simply state her opinion repeatedly, she gives reasons to support her claims. Her evidence appeared to be very relevant because it pertained to the topic of racism and the different matters she was pointing out. For example, Tatum made a claim that racism still exist in the world. She then follows that claim with examples of the racist occurrences that have happened and says, “events such as the Rodney King Beating, the Charles Stuart and Susan cases, the O.J. Simpson trial…” (Tatum, 2003, para 1). Just from that example of evidence I can say Tatum’s evidence individually was sufficient because she did not only include one occurrence of racism to back her claim, she included many. As far as all the evidence as a whole it was sufficient as well because every claim Tatum made was followed with evidence and never lacking. Accuracy is important when incorporating evidence in an article and Tatum definitely provided accurate evidence. Her evidence was mostly fact based because she takes real life examples aka testimonial evidence. In example, Tatum uses a discussion she once had with a student about cleopatra to point out the lack of knowledge the student had on