The Argumentative Essay: The Value Of American Culture

The times have gone a-changing again as people are fed up with this system we call America. More and more people come out of the silence that has silenced them for so long. This beautiful world we live in is getting uglier and uglier every day. Recent events have dug up the ancient question of what are America’s values? The America we stand in today is okay with leaving children behind who have “voices too loud, accents to thick, pockets to thin” (Christina and Frohman). The America we stand in today is okay with washing out minorities significance in the history books, okay with feeding “us the rotten fruit of untold stories” (Christina and Frohman). “Silence like a cancer grows” (Simon and Garfunkel) and the America we stand in today wants to keep it that way. But it will no longer stay that way, because summer is over and autumn blooming. “There’s a battle outside and it is ragin’” so “you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink
But so many children don’t receive these tools. These tools are wrapped up in golden wrapping paper with a bow on top and given to the more privilege. These tools are what your momma worked “three jobs, average two hours of sleep a night” (Christina and Frohman) for you to receive. Dominique Christina and Denice Frohman’s use of diction, repetition, and power voices bring the truth center stage. It brings to my attention how my mother would enroll me in predominately white schools to make sure I get those tools. But when you in the system for so long, it comes to your attention that the things you are learning and memorizing is white history, that the textbooks are filled with “everything but me,”(Christina and Frohman) everything but who you are and who your ancestors were. The unfortunate are stuck in a place we call the “hood,” a place we don’t talk about until it deals with going in and gentrifying it and moving the people