Racial Wage Gap Analysis

The Continuing Problems of Racial Wage Gaps
As time has progressed, the racial wage gap has been been increasing significantly, seen especially through blacks and whites. Wage gaps are seen everywhere in the workplace whether it is due to race or gender inequality. Initiative towards the abolishment of wage gaps, especially racial gaps, must be taken soon or else racial wage gaps would continue to exist for decades to come. Through the use of media, readers are able to be informed of the rising conflict. Articles such as “To End Unequal Pay for Black Women, We Must Confront Racism, Sexism, and the Maternal Wage Gap,” (Article A) by Sarah Brafman, suggests how people, particularly black women, have had a lower, initial wage from when they were …show more content…
Olutoye states, “Twice as hard because I’m female. Three times as hard because I’m the deadly combination of being black and female.” (Olutoye) This shows the author’s biased towards black women because she is aware of the discrimination and struggle that she has to deal with because of her race and gender making her favor people like her. This use of pathos, being pathos because it is emotional appeal towards audience on how being black and female is such a deadly combination, allows the reader to feel sympathy towards the author due to struggles she faces making them have no choice but to favor her and not the facts of the racial wage gap. The author also states, “The ethnicity pay gap is one among several symptoms of this disease quietly rotting away the soul of our humanity. It needs to be cut out and dealt with like a cancer before it kills society completely.” (Olutoye) Here, Olutoye is also making something, ethnicity pay gap, seem worse than it really is similar to what Source B did. This forces the reader to favor the author because it truly points out the flaws of ethnic wage gap and how it is corrupting society and humanity. Despite the fact that Olutoye is making ethnic wage gap sounding like a disease, she still has the authority to say this due to her credibility. Stated in the previous quote, the author is a “deadly combination” of being black and a women. While she does make herself sound much worse than what she really is, Olutoye still has the right to say it because she has built ethos and has experienced the discrimination and the struggles of being a black women herself. This allows her to express herself to others on why people should really view ethnic wage gap as a disease. All in all, while her reasoning is not credible, Olutoye’s personal credibility gives the reader authority to