Discussion Post

9/3/2020
The rhetorical situation of “The Dangers of Tipping While Black” shines light on the racial discrimiation taking place in restaurants in our society. The author too had experienced first hand the consequences of tipping while black when he was rudely addressed by a white waitress who misunderstood the whole situation as she thought he tipped less than usual which wasn’t the case, her reaction only exposed her true feelings towards the customer . The author mentions his upbringing in a poor environment and never experiencing the luxury of going to resustartants and as a result wasn’t educated on tipping etiquette. The author goes out his way to always tip 20%. I found this message very persuasive because the author himself went through the experiences that he is writing about making him much more credible. The audience is us readers and this is a narrative. The overall purpose of this narrative was to shed light on the discrimantion that is not publicized as much as it should. His story will always be at the back of my mind when I go to my next restaurant. I applaud the way he handled the situation because I doubt I would have been as calm and polite as he was. We as a society need to better the racial climate we are in right now needs to be used as a catalyst for change to occur.

9.22.2020

The rhetorical situation brought to light in this video is the appropriation of black culture. For many years black appropriation has become normalized in our society with no credit to the African American. In the video Steinberg mentions the appropriation of African American hair in pop culture. In the early 2000’s we saw a huge influx of white celebrates and artists starting to wear clothes, accessories associated with the black culture. Steinberg shows many images and footage of black appropriation in the fashion world and music industry. She talks about miley cyrus and and her twerking in a video. In the video she mentions how miley cyrus uses black women as props to evoke a false narrative that she is part of the black community. Steinberg also mention a katy Perry music video that is filled with numerous references to black culture and stigmas such as watermelon in her video. Azealia banks a black artist shed her thoughts on the appropriation of black culture, she says that it tells white kids that they can do whatever they put their mind to and it tells black children that they don’t own nothing not even their own culture. Steinberg use of images and research makes her argument very persuasive. The images she uses show black appropriation at its fullest. Steinberg informed her viewers of the robbery of the black culture throughout the years

10/29/2020

Audre Lorde presented a speech to the National Women’s Studies Association in June of 1981 called “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Anger”. In the speech Lorde discusses anger against racism and how it’s perceived for colored women and white women. In the speech lorde says that anger for white women is “scary” to deal with. The culture we live in doesn’t want women of color or white women to voice their opinion on racism. Lorde says “My fear of anger taught me nothing. Your fear of that anger will teach you nothing, also.” This shows that holding in the anger that she felt about racism did not teach her anything. Guilt is a useless emotion according to lorde she argues that the emotion does not lead to action. Lorde also brings to light that white women often fear the anger of women of color more than their own racist tendencies because they are afraid of being guilty. The effect of her inclusion of the bullet point list makes her argument even more convincing, it brings crediilty to what she is saying because she is using real life scenarios to make her point more concrete. In conclusion Lorde’s speech goes to show her feelings towards racism and also how its affects women of color and white women

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