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Editorial Analysis Essay Well on December 6, 2016 the New York Times Editorial Board had released a document about Racism in New York's Prisons. The author which is the Editorial Board has used some main point of bias and some just were neutral. Also when he was talks he uses a lot of rhetoric specifically logos when he talked he was stating a lot of facts and just telling the audience what was true so, turning into the bias side he was not bias at all because using facts and what you know is not bias. Also when he talked about connotation nothing really much what connotative in the article. In Paragraph 7 sentence 2, the author says that “Since 2006, white inmates serving two to four years for one count of third degree burglary were released …show more content…
In paragraph 3 it says “It has long been known that black inmates assigned to prisons in the overwhelmingly white northern parts of New York were subject to racial threats and abuse from virtually the moment they stepped through the door” (The Editorial Board). I think that this is a little bias that when the author was telling us that basically if a black man comes to a white prison the get treated like a slave. But most of the Rhetoric was logos. There was also a lot of connotation in this article. In the Title there was connotation “The Stain of Racism in New York’s Prisons”. (The Editorial Board) I think that this is connotation because when he uses the word “Stain” I think that it means that when you have a stain it is hard to get rid of. Also when he talks about the stain it also means that since a stain is hard to get rid of so would be the problem of Racism in Prisons. I think that after all that Racism in prisons it is going to be hard to get rid of. Also I feel like how people are saying that it is hard to get rid of we people that work in those prisons should make a change and we all should be treated the same. If white people do the same crime as black people and the white people are getting released early because they are white that is not fair. I think that all people should be treated the same way because we all equal and the

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