Depit & Smitherman

Summary
Delpit: In the article "The Politics of Teaching Literate Discourse", Lisa Delpit  attempts to talk about whether or not students can learn a dominant secondary discourse in classrooms. She goes on to talk about if teachers can actually teach students who are either poor or colored and if they can actually accomplish it. She says that students should be treated equally, no matter the circumstance. She refers and agrees with James Paul Gee in her article about how literacy is more than reading and writing.

Smitherman: In Geneva Smitherman's article "God Don't Never Change: Black English from a Black Perspective", she attempts to talk about the differences in the language used between blacks and whites. She attempts to argue how black people should be able to speak and use their language and shouldn't have to learn the white language. She says it's just as important for them to use their language as it is to use our language.

Synthesis: Both of these articles relate to that of Malinowitz's "Queer Texts, Queer Concepts" because she talks about the discrimination and the poor judgement given to them because of who they are. The two articles of Delpit and Smitherman each contain about the judgement of blacks towards their language and how the poor and colored people think that they can't be taught and are uneducated.

Opinion: Because of these articles each pertain to things that are going on in our life time, I enjoy it more in a sense that I can connect to it and it makes me feel better about the human race because maybe there is hope for others to defend one another and and are able to come together aside from differences. That's why I enjoyed these articles so far and love how it still carries into our time today.