I'm Black; You're White

In an effort to deliniate some of the major differences between blacks and whites, "I'm Black, You're White, Who's Innocent" by Shelby Steel, uses annoying rhetoric which often feels like a jumbled mass of words. Steel seems to bounce all over the map in this essay, leaving his reader to wonder what he is trying to say. Also, the piece feels like a long-winded opinion that is based solely on one persons life experience. This creates a formula for becoming a less-than-effective essay, and falls short of fulfilling its duty to an intriguing subject.
In Steel's much study and attention to the subject of race, he has given terms, or names, trying to describe what is happening between blacks and whites. The problem is the pure mass of them stuffed into a short essay. Terms like: bargainer, challenger, seeing for innocence, just a name a few, would be more effective as chapters of a book with more room to clarify. They feel forced into a tight space here, created a hard-to-follow rhetoric.
Steel begins a number of his paragraphs with words like: I think, I believe, and I feel. This limits the evidences and ideas that are presented in this essay, by making it all have the feel of an opinion. Steel presents good points throughout the piece, but handicaps those points by attaching them so clearly to opinion. This essay, because of it's topic, has an interesting appeal. However, it doesn't take long for the reader to become disengaged because of cluttered and unclear rhetoric, based too much upon opinion.