- Simply put, the black community has not been afforded equal rights in literacy. According to Staples (2022), just like in the past, black Americans have struggled and are still struggling to pursue knowledge. Furthermore, he stated that for an individual to be knowledgeable in the past, they had to be from a family that was free from emancipation or a descendant of a well-situated house enslaved person. Education was an essential asset to the blacks, yet they had to gather the knowledge themselves
- According to staples (2022), just like the era of black people’s Emancipation, the literate black people had a vantage point from the illiteracy that helped protect them from swindlers who stripped black people of land and assets. Coleman (2022) states that literacy is also required for employment in the common day world and without this knowledge the black people end up unemployed and homeless.
- The argument in the article is that black students are in a learning crisis. With the COVID pandemic striking, the situation is about to worsen with the education switching to online and black students might miss out due to lack of connectivity. Coleman (2022) asserts that literacy is an essential requirement for employment, and with black people not being educated, their lives will worsen.
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Dear Moemin,
I just wanted to say I agree with you how the main argument of the article, “With COVID, the African-American Literacy Crisis will get much worse”?, is that African-American students are in a learning crisis. In my eyes, this argument was supported within the article which focused on the number one area in education in which many African-Americans students suffer within and it is literacy and how many students within the Black community are not proficient in reading. Racism, large classrooms, and poorly trained teachers only contributing to this issue further. Aside from this, I disagree with your belief that the Black community has been afforded equal access to literacy as proven by the library today which is very welcoming to everyone from every community and serves as a source of knowledge and entertainment from what I have seen from my years of visiting different libraries. Although, this does not mean that certain issues do exist that hinder the Black communities access to literacy which is why, in my eyes, this question is more of a “gray area.” Overall, great work and thank you for sharing your answers!
– Deleny Leon
Hi Meomin, I enjoyed reading your post. I do not agree with your part where you spoke about the Black community having equal access to literacy. Unfortunately for many years they have not been given the same level of access as many other communities have had. They are not able to afford the luxuries as others have had prior. Now it is a lot easier but if they are far or if they have certain hours then they are not able to have that luxury.