Toulmin Analysis on My Pathos Blog

    
       In my pathos blog, I begin with a strong introduction sentence stating a problem that is getting worse over time. Unfortunately, as I read the introduction paragraph, I seem to notice that I lack a solid claim. If I were to add one in there now it would sound a bit like this; Racial profiling is wrong and needs to be stopped.
      Now I know that there are limits to my claim which is why qualifiers are good to add. By saying: Some people believe racial profiling is not an issue, it shows that I know not everyone is on the same page as me and I am willing to address that. I am also lacking qualifiers in my original blog.
      Now that I read my blog over looking at it with a Toulmin aspect, I notice that my reasons are not that clear and everything is just factual and ethos. If I could pinpoint some reasons I would have to say that they are

1. Racial profiling has been heightening for the past two decades
2. Racial profiling happens to many different races
3. it is very demeaning and belittling

   If included, my warrant would be; since descrimination is illegal, all forms of negativity against specific races/ethnicities should also not be practiced.
    To support my warrant, I have a backing. My backing is that racial profiling was deemed unconstitutional. To add to that I would say that, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that racial profiling violates the constitutional requirement that all persons be accorded equal protection of the law. 
    I have to say that throughout my blog I manage to include a lot of evidence and statistics. For example:

1. In the year 2005, drivers of African American descent were 4.5% likely to be arrested during a traffic stop than a Caucasian driver who only had a 2.1% chance of being arrested.
2. Hispanic drivers were 65% more likely to receive a ticket than Caucasian drivers who had a 56.2% chance and African American drivers who had a 55.8% chance.

    I built my ethos and credibility by telling a personal story of how I experienced racial profiling.
   Since I mentioned a qualifier earlier that was intended to acknowledge my rebuttal's. Some rebuttal's could be

1. white people experience racial profiling too
2. everybody is going to have their opinions and everybody has a right to that opinion
3. even though racial profiling was deemed uncnstitutional, no body will follow it.

  There could definitly be many more rebuttal's but those are the three that I can think of. To respond to those rebuttal's I would say

1. I will mention all races in my argument (including white people)
2. If your opinion offends and hurts people, don't state them.
3. If we all try to follow my second reason, then we will atleast start to decrease the occurances or racial profiling.