Rewritten "Arrested Development" Blog

When trying to develop an argument, a writer needs a steady stance and plenty of supporting facts to back up his or her claim. In James Forman’s essay “Arrested Development,” he discusses racial profiling and its effect on students attending the Maya Angelou school. He begins by pointing out the audience, conservatives, but he describes them in such a way that the conservative reader would disagree with such a description. He has a known bias because he is a teacher in the school he is trying to defend in the article, giving the audience an idea that his facts and process might be a little skewed to his side. He uses statistics to present a sound logical argument, but one statistic stands out in particular, from The New York Times. Percents were recorded of the different races that were pulled over on a highway, blacks having the highest percentage. Not only does that prove nothing, but it in no way supports his argument unless the reader is not careful. He goes on to describe conservatives and liberals in such a way that contradicts his former description, and can be controversial to those readers who identify with such ideologies. Forman could have done a better job using logical to prove his point, but the main idea is made in the article.