Juan Williams response by: Kevin Jennings, Emily Hollosi, Annie Iliano

Juan Williams's speech seemed to be mostly forensic, which eventually led to a deliberative ending. Williams used many examples of logos throughout his speech to make his points and attain a particular response from his audience. In our opininion, we actually felt that he used too muc logos, and used less of pathos and ethos to gain the acceptance and attention of his audience.
Juan Williams did however do a good job of creating a strong ethos. First of all, the fact that he was a political analyst for Fox news gave him the past knowledge of political and cultural affairs. Because of his racial background, this automatically gave him ethos to be speaking to his audience and to have a cultural tie to the subject he was addressing. Williams also qouted Thurgood Marshall throughout his speech, giving him ethos through quoting someone whose beleifs match his own, but he also wrote Marshall's biography which etablishes credibility to speak about him.
As far as logos is concerned, William's overused this aspect and neglected the others such as ethos and pathos that he could have used. It semed to be more of a lesson on historical facts rather than a persuassive speech. He began from the begininng to list particular facts, and continued to do so throughout. For example, he desribed the different methods that the whites used to keep the blacks from voting, such as inforcing poll taxes, litteracy requirements, and other methods of intimidation. The blacks had their mortgages and jobs threatened if they didn't stay away from the polls. During this part of the speech, we discussed as a group that it reminded us of what is going on in Iraq with the insurgents attempting to keep the Iraqi's fom voting. Although these were all examples of logos, they had hints of pathos as well.
The core of his pathos centered around the Montgomery Bus boycott. Williams set the stage of their oppression and segregation by retelling the story of Ms. Robinson, an English professor, who stopped at the front of the bus to pay; however, the bus driver thought she was going to sit at the front of the bus and called her a "nigger-ape." Ms. Robinson ran away crying. This gripping account of the horrific treatment of African Americans begins his pathos. Then, Williams moved on to the Rosa Parks incident, a story we all know. He continued with the boycott that lasted a year. Williams also emphasized the de-humanization of blacks by telling how the segregated part of the bus was separated with "chicken-coop wire," a symbol of blacks presented as chattle. Therefore, Williams presented logos, by telling a factual account, but it was heavily blended with pathos, the emotional connection with those involved.
Williams's telos was in the need for understanding blacks history, and the need to get to a point where people beleive that their vote counts for something. Without these understandings, Williams beleives that there would be "turmoil." This seems to be the urgency and exigence of his speech. As far as kairos, this goes back to his desire for people to come to the understanding that their vote counts for somthing important.