Rhonda Pulley
English 101



The article "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?" I found to be completely persuasive to any open minded adult reader as that's who I believe to be the intended audience. It states "language identifies you or who you are" and then gives many facts about how.
The writer uses Logos throughout the article stating how people everywhere adapt language to there circumstances. We pick up the style of language spoke by the people we're surrounded by in order to communicate.
 The Pathos opened my minds eye when I read the part about the black islanders coming from different tribes and not being able to talk to each other while the were chain together. How sad is that? And how the white Americans, at that time, never had any interest in teaching them our language. Or how a child cannot be taught to be someone he's not. Black English is the creation of the black diaspora.
The author uses a quote by Toni Morrison, examples of the Beat Generation and the Jazz Age to prove Ethos. In addition he also uses American history.