Analysis of Logos

Throughout his article Albert Bigelow makes his arguments seem like the logical and best approaches to solving the issue of segregation at hand. He presents parallel cases he considered similar to segregation in the United States. By comparing the country’s condition to that of communist countries and the Nazis Bigelow shows that logically, those who opposed Communism and the Holocaust should abhor segregation as well. Bigelow also ends this claim with a rhetorical question, which by default is thought to have an obvious and logical answer. Bigelow also describes the typical work day of African American women implying how the rules of respect due to age were broken because of race. The African American woman (of 60 or so years) was referred to as the Negro "girl” who worked for her much younger White "lady." Most people consider that respecting all people, especially those older than ourselves is crucially important; Because we show this by how we refer to them, the entire situation he presents is meant to seem illogical and wrong. Bigelow makes his arguments convincing by making them appear as the way intelligent and logical individuals would think and act!