Additional Assignment 7
Segregation has come a long way since the days of Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement. Shelby Steele addresses the minorities and their disapproval of benefits in his essay “The New Sovereignty”. Modern day blacks, Hispanics, women, and other minorities receive special grants and privileges from the government. Those minorities still believe that their original rights that where fought for decades ago, and the sacrifices made them eligible for benefits. Steele’s essay is an eye opener to those minorities who do not earn what they receive and how working equally will promote the standards of the modern way of life. The definition of equality is different for each human being, but the equality the minorities
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He points out that such entitlements that are granted now have not been set in stone, it has not always been this way. Post Civil Rights Movement whites did not get special entitlements based on the color of their hair. He uses entilttlement loosely as a sort of joke in a way. Stating that minorities fought for the rights of caucasion men and now they feel they should be entitled to spectial privledges due to previous grivences. By using entitlement respectively Steele is able to encourage his readers the entitlements should be cherished and not relied on. “…because it threatens their collective entitlement by insisting that no group be entitled over another.” (456) Steele’s quotes suggest that everyone should have equal entitlements and for the minorities that receive more; they should not take them for granted, because they are ultimately limiting the rights of caucasion in the process. Steele pleads with minorities to realize that it is better to work for entitlements and benefits, rather than just receive these handouts out of pity, because ultimately the rights fought for durning the Civil Rights Movement were to be equal to whites. Not to sit idly by and count on entitlements to make them equal but to work for them as the Caucasians …show more content…
He uses these statistics in order to make his essay more creditable. He is able to use facts from history to back up all the valuable points of his opinions. “By the 1970 more than 60 percent of the American population not only blacks but Hispanics, women, Asians, would come under collective entitlement of affirmative action”(456) The quote suggest that many minorities receive entitlements primarily on gender or race. The statistics help Steele’s argument by saying every minority receives some kind of benefit they do not earn. He adds this to add depth and concrete information to his article. How can one argue with facts? It is impossible, unless one can prove the facts to be discombobulated and false. However, facts add credibility to any argument. If a person is arguing with their government teacher on a grade, which they received, and can not back their statements up with facts, while the professor has the book opened and locates all the correct answers, the argument is ceased. Facts can over turn all other information, this is why Steele uses such precise facts in his article. He can eliminate any argument form non informed, and uneducated persons immediately. Another reason facts are an outstanding rhetorical device is it allows people to start thinking. Are these facts real, wow I did not know that, or I didn’t realize that. All of theses responses Steele can use to benefit himself. If
Such privileges range from obvious aspects like, “[turning] on the television or [opening] the front page of the paper and [seeing] people of my race widely represented.” to more conspicuous concepts like the ability to “ choose blemish cover or bandages in ‘flesh’ color and have them more or less match my skin.”. Throughout her 26 bullet points, McIntosh gives reasoning behind her initial claim that white privilege is overlooked by those who are a part of the group. Consequently, the audience is forced to, figuratively, unpack their privilege. With each bullet point, the reader is taken to another privilege that is not listed: McIntosh forces the reader to dig deeper, think further.
McIntosh shows the readers that people who are African Americans should be treated the same as their white counterparts. She even later goes on and says that the word “privilege” used in this sense seems to mislead and states, “We usually think of privilege as being a favored state, whether earned or conferred by birth
Allison masterfully uses the assumptions of the American people to make implications, which if outright stated, would not
Anderson claims that white people have more power in society and because of this, minorities are forced to take it upon the streets. Anderson wants the reader to understand that white people, especially white males, have more power than other races because in our society the reader sees powerful men everyday such as lawyers, policemen, judges, CEO's ,and etc. The reader doesn't see many minority's as high power people. When the author states that “...white rage carries an aura of respectability and has access to the courts, police, legislatures and governors,...” the reader can infers that white people are perceived as higher roles in our society and that the minority's rage carries a aura of disrespect and leads to violence. This allows white people to to be heard easily because of how they are seen in society by other white people, but for minority's they struggle to be heard because nobody pays attention to them because society feels that this is an ongoing issue.
Watching Michelle Alexander’s book discussion was such an eye opening experience for me to a matter that I was blind to till now. Watching her discussion brought feelings of anger, shock, shame, but most of all hope. I was completely unaware to the mass incarceration of minorities. I was aware of the increase of mass incarnation but not to the extent that Michelle explained in her discussion. I believe that Michelle’s description of the birth of a caste like system in the US to be extremely accurate.
For years, large groups of people have come together to oppose exciting ideas, encouraging the change of beliefs, and government approach. During the mid-1900’s the people of America called for a difference in humanity. The difference is the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement was a movement in which African Americans urged to have the same lives as that of the white Americans. Whether it is a way of human conflict or a way to survive the battle, this movement is an essential part of our society’s growth and expansion into a modern society.
Imagine a time where all races are separated. One day that will all change. In the 1950s, there was a fearless African American lady who stood up to racial segregation. That started the protests towards the unfair, racial discrimination. African Americans weren’t allowed to use any white public facilities such as schools, bathrooms, and parks.
21). America first saw the growth of the idea of race when slavery had come along, as well as, the extermination of the Native Americans after Columbus found the now United States; but before that, race was not important or similarly used in most societies (Alexander, 2012, p. 23). It is noted in the book that the racial caste system became concrete by the Mid 1770’s, and subsequently, minorities were consistently looked down upon while being viewed as inferior due to older beliefs from decades before. Slaves and minority workers were considered a lesser group, lacking intelligence and overall the ability to be similar to a white person (Alexander, 2012, p. 25). Even more concerning, is that Alexander discusses that the Constitution was perceived as colorblind because it never used the words like negro, yet it was made to keep blacks and whites separate (Alexander, 2012,
Stephen Marche wrote an argument trying to argue the point that we as Americans are not as equal as we have always believed we were. Marche is a mainstream writer and a novelist with his first novel published in 2005. Many of his articles can often be read in the New York Times and the Atlantic. In his article “We Are Not All Created Equal: The Truth about the American Class System” he gives valid points and details to inform us the truth behind what we think we see.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a large portion of Americans were restricted from civil and political rights. In American government in Black and White (Second ed.), Paula D. McClain and Steven C. Tauber and Vanna Gonzales’s power point slides, the politics of race and ethnicity is described by explaining the history of discrimination and civil rights progress for selective groups. Civil rights were retracted from African Americans and Asian Americans due to group designation, forms of inequality, and segregation. These restrictions were combatted by reforms such as the Thirteenth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, the Fifteenth amendment, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, etc. Although civil and political
The Rhetorical Strategies of a Latina Judge's Speech To End the Lack of Representation Throughout the diversity in the United States, there is a multitude of factors that underestimate and terminate the presence or idea of women and minorities in government roles. In current times, awareness of gender equality and excluded minorities has rose to an all- time high. Many are advocating that the way our country sees and treats intersectionality needs to change for the better. Judge Sonia Sotomayor is an advocator by spreading this public announcement through a piece of a speech. She discusses the obstacles she and other minorities face to place higher on the social ladder and to be represented during a speech at the Judge Mario G. Olmos Memorial
Equality means everyone has equalrights, not that nobody is better than anyone else
Johnathan Kozol’s article “Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid” targets today’s society. He states how segregation today isn’t any different from how it was decades back. The intended audience can initially be everyone because the article stresses the importance of how America hasn’t really gone through much change. Kozol uses several methods of development to produce a successful argument. He persuasively constructs his argument using logos, while backing up his claim with factual information.
For example, the fourteenth amendment, which clearly tackles the equal protection of the laws, only truly applies to the whites rather than all peoples in the United States. Therefore, I believe that the latter aspect confirms Harris’s claims of the privilege of being white. Currently, the US has made gigantic improvements in terms of race classification and property. However, according to Harris, the white privilege is almost impossible to remove because the Whites have never gone through the humiliation in history as the
Racial inequality has plagued our society for centuries and has been described as a “black eye” on American history. It wasn’t until the passing of The Civil Rights Act of 1965 that minorities were given equal protection under the law. This was a crucial step on our society’s road to reconciling this injustice. However, the effects of past racial inequality are still visible to this day, and our society still wrestles with how to solve this issue. In 1965, President Lyndon B Johnson said: “You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say you are free to compete with all the others, and still just believe that you have been completely fair.