Analysis Of Matt Taibbi 's Piece, He Investigates The Shennigans Of Mr Eric Holder And The Banking Fiasco

The diction Loury uses creates an image of two sides between Americans and criminals. Throughout the essay, Loury refers to criminals as “them—a bunch of anomic, menacing, morally deviant ‘thugs.’” (3), and Americans as “we.” He uses inclusive language to appeal to the audience. Nonetheless, there is a negative tone attached to these words. Simply by creating two sides, it is almost as if there is a battle between the two--and there is. Criminals want justice, while Americans try to keep them locked in for extreme reasons. These extreme reasons include juveniles being put on death row, or innocent people being falsely accused of a crime. Another technique Loury uses is the way he describes America. He is referring to America in third-person or as an individual noun. One, in a third-person point of view, it allows the reader to see all of the reasons come together. Two, he excludes America as its own form; it ironically emphasizes his point that “the U.S. is an international outlier” (2) since we exclude our own citizens. Loury isolates America’s issues by referring to America as its’ own individual form, which reflects on our issues that other countries do not have. With this, we are able to highlight as readers the issues we have that do not correspond with other countries. There are facts, presented as dry evidence, stated to prove that these problems exist only in our

Glen Loury argues in his essay called “A Nation of Jailer” that the United States is a nation that follows a society that has been affected by racial bias. Loury claims that the people who are targeted by law are racial discriminated. Loury mainly talks about the “poorly educated black and Hispanic men who reside in large numbers in our great urban centers.” (1) Loury has made a clear and strong point. Loury shows his points in three main ways. Loury emphasizes his points by using ethos, logos, and pathos. Loury uses many well-known characters in his writing, and Loury uses strong phrases that impact the reader emotionally and questions to make sure the reader has some sort of connection to Loury’s evidence. Furthermore, Loury gives a lot

Michelle Alexander in her eye-opener novel, The New Jim Crow, makes a dauntless premise that the racial caste system that was supposedly ended in America during the Civil Rights Movement still exists today and is completely redesigned in the sense that colored men are the target of an intentional “War on Drugs.” Alexander claims that the criminal justice system is used as a mean to racially control millions of colored people and the same system is used to demote them to a second-class citizen status. Alexander employs a great deal of rhetoric in her novel to appeal to the reader’s emotions and values, so that she is able to alter the ethos of the readers and ultimately reveal the blindness present in the United States Justice System. Alexander

Michelle Alexander is a professor at the Union Theological Seminary,a civil rights lawyer and advocate and writer that devotes herself to speaking out on racial injustice and that slavery hasn't actually left america or in Alexander’s words, “we have not ended racial caste in America, we have merely redesigned it.” Alexander's book touches a lot of subjects that have to do with America's criminal justice system, such as criticizing past President Richard Nixon's “the war on drugs”, she explains that because of this event our country has lead to mass incarceration, of those being arrested with usually black americans. Thus we have this crucial issue with racial injustice and denying our citizens basic human right by holding them in jail cells

. . other agencies . . . [that] were involved” (307), especially paranoia regarding Islamist terrorists from the 9/11 attack, resulted in the systematic search to incarcerate Muslims like Zeitoun. As a result, when Zeitoun is about to enter Camp Greyhound and questions a passing soldier why he and his friends have been arrested, the soldier replies, “‘You guys are Al Qaeda’” (212), concurring with the MSSTs’ purpose of apprehending potential members of major terrorist groups. Obviously, this is not a rational reason for an arrest, as the men have done nothing illegal. Eggers uses this appeal to authority (through the quote of a soldier actively participating in the situation) to underline just how much more of a role race and religion play in Hurricane Katrina’s law enforcement than actual criminal behavior. Zeitoun’s only “crime” is being Arab and believing in Allah in a time when Islamophobia is rampant, reasons that do not justify the mistreatment he suffers during the next couple of weeks as a supposed “terrorist.” Therefore, through the inclusion of credible evidence and quotes, Eggers successfully harnesses logos to affirm the unmerited racial and religious injustices that Zeitoun faces during and after his arrest, simply because he is a Middle Eastern, Muslim man.

Race, Incarceration and American Values explains how incarceration is a legalized form of genocide that is slowly destroying the fiber of African American communities. Glenn Loury, along with Pamela Karian, Tommie Shelby and Loic Wacquant discuss how America has let fear and greed cause a inequitable landscape for its inhabitants who have unfortunately been born on the wrong side of the hill. The principals of equality and freedom on which America was founded on has become nothing more than smoke and mirrors. Maybe the pride America displays to the World as a Global power, incapable of wrong doing is what is holding it back from recognizing the mistakes it made and undergoing to process of change. Or maybe it 's what we fear most, it 's what we thought in our head but never dare to say. That it 's a careful crafted system to keep those with power in power.

Ever since its creation America has always been seen as the icon for peace and prosperity; however, just like every other nation in the world, America has encountered some exceedingly dark and sinister incidents of the past years. Like David Berkowitz’s killing spree in New York City during the summer of 1976, the Virginia Tech shooting that took place on the college campus in 2007, and even the horrific Oklahoma City Bombing that Timothy McVeigh orchestrated in 1995. But there is one event in particular that was even more heinous and stranger than any of those – the Jonestown Massacre. It was a mass suicide that occurred on November 18, 1978, in Guyana that took the lives of over 900 innocent people (The Stigmatized Deaths in Jonestown…

The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas, discusses the issues on identity, immigration, and nationalism at a precarious time in our countries past. Throughout this moment, two very diverse lives intertwine in an unanticipated way. The first life is Rais Bhuiyan, a Bangladeshi immigrant who left Dhaka for the chance of a better life in the United States. The other is Mark Stroman, a racist white Texan who never got a fair shot from his family, the law, and his education. Their intertwined lives officially began when Stroman’s racial hatred is triggered by the terrorist attack of September 11th. He essentially went on a killing spree, shooting three men because of his prejudice judgement. One of those three men happened to

The author of the article discusses the hatred that revolves around the concept of equality in America. The author of the news article uses his knowledge of past events, such as slavery, and current issues. The audience of the article is those who don’t understand why the protests and riots in Charlottesville is an issue to many White Nationalist. The articles compare in the sense that they both discuss hatred that has been revolving on the issue, but they differ on what they speak of, as this article speaking of the president and his issues and the other speaks of the people. In conclusion, after many years of fighting against the hatred in society, there is still a lot to be done.

Pointing to the injustices which black Americans faced daily, Hayden argues that there is no way for these people to both work within the law and accomplish their agenda. Among the injustices Hayden highlights are economic inequality, political prejudice, and the view of white Americans that, “only military force stands between them and the black savages,” leading to a situation where, “the outright killing of people is condoned where those people cannot accept law and order as defined by the majority” (p. 167). Hayden continues, saying that, if it were possible, it would be more elegant for these Americans to work within the confines of the law. However, since it is not possible to do this, due to the stacked deck of society, black Americans must resort to a state of revolution in order to create and maintain a self-government that serves their

The Condemnation of Blackness: Analysis of Black Criminalization in America. Khalil Muhammad’s analysis of black criminality in the history of The United States provides a stunning perspective on our world today. His work is an invaluable gift for all individuals who are interested in understanding the racialization of crime in America. From the first chapter to the last chapter, Muhammad dissects numerous information and draws conclusions regarding black lives before, during and after the civil war. As he puts it “The Condemnation of Blackness demonstrates and explains how ideas of racial inferiority and crime became fastened to African Americans by contract to ideas of class and crime that shaped the

In the article, The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander vigorously argues the means in which the American prison system has become a redesigned form of disenfranchisement for poor people of color, while comparing it to the racially motivated Jim Crow laws. Alexander begins the article by making powerful assumptions about the readers; she states that “[racial caste] is [the subject] that most Americans seem content to ignore”. Although this may offend the readers, she includes a personal narrative explaining her initial disbelief to the “new racial caste system” and by doing so, Alexander displays how easily it is for one to deny controversial issues on race without proper knowledge on the subject. Moreover, the use of personal narrative makes

Known in every corner of the world, the United States is retained with admiration in everyone's eyes, recognized for its courtesy, orderliness, continuous prosperity, and viewed as a culture sanctuary. From an outsider’s point of view, the U.S. represents perfection; however, those in its confinement are aware of the cruel reality, perfection is but a myth, and south, located at the border, is Brownsville,Tx, the city that has the capability to shatter the world’s impeccable image of the U.S.

Maybe we could honor modern America’s internal hostile activities acting but at the same time maintaining a watchful eye toward state. Power becomes the goal of media control, publicity, and cruelty as the state shields its control of the political. In return, this inspires the state to pinpoint a native opponent- “every state provides, therefore, some kind of formula for the declaration of an internal enemy” (46). To answer why such phenomenon takes place, Schmitt responds that “if a part of the population declares that it no longer recognizes enemies, then, depending on the circumstance, it joins their side and aids them”

The government, blacks, whites, police, and reality of the corrupt government are all forms of ethos that are revealed in chapters one through three. Ta- Nehisi Coates in chapter one states what americans deify democracy he said “Americans deify democracy in a way that allows for a dim awareness that they have, from time to time, stood in defiance of their God. But democracy is a forgiving God and America’s heresies torture, theft, enslavement are so common among individuals and nations that none can declare themselves immune.” (Coates page 6). This quote has a significant meaning, because it is explains that the reason why us american’s can not be woke is, because of the way we deify democracy. The