Analysis Of Wilmington On Fire

Ethos (1)- Dr. Umar Johnson’s interview Black People Tend Not to Understand Propaganda can be found on YouTube and in the film 2015 Wilmington on Fire. Throughout the film, title cards in the film make it clear Dr. Johnson is a historian and psychologist with a PhD. His credentials compounded by his appearance in a documentary about historical event blotted from history make his testimony all the more believable because this topic has not been discussed in the public sphere. This is what would be considered initial credibility.
Rationale- According to our Aristotle’s proofs powerpoint, ethos is “creating a sense of credibility for the speaker in the audience” (Bollinger, 2016). Dr. Umar Johnson’s website adds to his credibility. A blood relative

Johnson is able to use his credibility and create a context for how the public is becoming used to African American oppression. When speaking he says, “The one thing about the brain that we have to understand is the creature of repetition. Whoever has the most access to the brain rules the brain. It’s about quantity and not quality” (Johnson 1:35) and “The subconscious begins to get conditioned automatically. Because you can’t turn off the subconscious to what it sees and what it hears” (Johnson 1:58). No one can deny his claims are reasonable whether they have prior knowledge of how the brain affects behavior or

Even though inartistic proofs can be questioned, because of the conflicting reports it is obvious someone made an error at some point. The reader does not have to click on a link to view these inartistic proofs, they are embedded right in the website. Documents within the website include: The Valdosta-Lowndes Regional Crime Laboratory, the Official Report done by the Division of Forensic Sciences of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and the second autopsy report done by the Forensic Dimension in Florida.
Inartistic Proof (2)- The article, Was Lennon Lacy Lunched? 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know (Hughes, 2014), has a number of inartistic proofs similar to the Guariglia’s (2013) about Kendrick Johnson. The author provides state and federal documents dealing with the handling and circumstances of Lennon Lacy’s death. These documents are, again, embedded in the document and can be found here: