CL 2/25

The Race Question

The writer believes that their audience is their discourse community. The writer thinks that their audience agrees with their warrant(belief).

Morgan thinks that the gap is that his audience does not understand the race issue. The issue is voting rights and citizenship. His audience are white southern people and Dixiecrats.

• Claim–He believed that whites were superior to the African race.
• Reasons– He did not want blacks to get the right to vote.
• Evidence– He believes that blacks will use their vote to show their resentment towards white southern people. He gives an example of Haiti and Jamaica, and that they drove out white people.
• Warrant– He believe that the African race was not as civilized as the white race
• Counterargument–Whites are not superior to any other race. All races deserve equal rights.
• Rebuttal– He would say that the flaw in that argument is that everyone else believes that Africans are inferior, so it is true.