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Tiffany Hendrickson: Storming The Gate Talking In Color

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Heta patel
Dr. Blasingame
English 1101: paper 1
3 February 2015
Storming the gate talking in color
Racism is one of the mot common reason people all around the world suffer from. Racism means discrimination between a person based on their skin color or race. Some people even think they have more ability than people of other races. In Tiffany Hendrickson’s essay, she talks about how she was discriminated by other white people in her community. She had certain problem while growing up due to her mother being deaf and her dad being illiterate. She experienced difficulties but also learned how to overcome her fears. In my research paper I state that a race has no certain type of voice. People all around the world have different accents so you …show more content…

She did not have enough money to go to an elite school, due to her family problems; all the white people from her neighborhood attended the elite school. She shares her own experience on how a guy treated her in one of the college party due to her voice. She was told that she did not sound white because she did not articulate her words nicely and she sounded like a black women. The guy from her college party said “Are you white?” I replied, “Ahhhh, yes.” He had this look of disappointment on his face and said, “Well, then talk white. Stop talking like a nigger!” (Hendrickson). She was shocked after hearing this. And then after the incident she started to learn the code-switching languages with various different people. This was her way of coping and adjusting to her surroundings. She made her argument in this essay ever clear by stating necessary and important points that would support her …show more content…

Studies states that many people made snap judgment and racist about the callers (David, pg.1). Like in the olden days even when you called a person and your voice sounded like an African American people would just hang up on you. People were rejecting and stopped from buying houses if they sounded like black. John Baugh researched these incidents stated above (David, pg.1). Discriminating a person based on a persons culture, or the federal law prohibits language. Never judge a person based on their voice or color. Voice doesn’t matter; it does not show who you are or what your personality is. Never judge a person by his/her voice you never know what that person is going through or what personality does that person have. Martin Luther once said “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”(Martin Luther King Jr.)
Classism is a term that is used for discriminating a person based on their class. When African Americans went for an job interview they were rejected because they were black. Some people even changed their name to sound more like Caucasian name so that they could get jobs. People have good times and bad times, so you could be upper class for some time

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