Hush
Shhhh, we don’t talk about that. We are taught that the corrupt parts of American history are swept under the rug. Many times that creates animosity between those affected and the perpetrators. Anachronism, inconsistency of written history is often the style that many historians take to eliminate the bad parts. Every country’s history is plagued by events that its citizens would like to forget a desire to do so may lead to “revisionist history” when those who write history books make their own determination of what people will remember. “History Tells hard stories of Ethnic clashes” conveys how silence does not improve how society views the dark portions of the past and that by voicing such events future issues can be avoided. Leonard Pitts Jr adequately uses pathos and logos to argue that silencing history only creates more issues especially racial tensions, in …show more content…
Pitts makes the claim that history is identity and those stories tell people who they are and where they came from. Pitts uses the example that the governor of Arizona signed a law restricting ethnic studies in public schools. These laws ban classes that promote resentment toward a specific class or race or classes that are designed specifically for a certain race. Pitts argues that silence not only creates resentment but also keeps it alive.
Pathos is used to appeal to emotion. Pitts uses pathos to support his claim by using his personal experience with people who want to leave behind history that deals with racial or ethnic clashes “An earnest lady who pleaded with me to leave this history behind. Telling such tales, she said, could not help but make black people resent white ones.” Pitts believes that the silence does this as well so history should be voiced regardless of who may be
Shhhh, we don’t talk about that. We are taught that the corrupt parts of American history are swept under the rug. Many times that creates animosity between those affected and the perpetrators. Anachronism, inconsistency of written history is often the style that many historians take to eliminate the bad parts. Every country’s history is plagued by events that its citizens would like to forget a desire to do so may lead to “revisionist history” when those who write history books make their own determination of what people will remember. “History Tells hard stories of Ethnic clashes” conveys how silence does not improve how society views the dark portions of the past and that by voicing such events future issues can be avoided. Leonard Pitts Jr adequately uses pathos and logos to argue that silencing history only creates more issues especially racial tensions, in …show more content…
Pitts makes the claim that history is identity and those stories tell people who they are and where they came from. Pitts uses the example that the governor of Arizona signed a law restricting ethnic studies in public schools. These laws ban classes that promote resentment toward a specific class or race or classes that are designed specifically for a certain race. Pitts argues that silence not only creates resentment but also keeps it alive.
Pathos is used to appeal to emotion. Pitts uses pathos to support his claim by using his personal experience with people who want to leave behind history that deals with racial or ethnic clashes “An earnest lady who pleaded with me to leave this history behind. Telling such tales, she said, could not help but make black people resent white ones.” Pitts believes that the silence does this as well so history should be voiced regardless of who may be