nderstood that there is a great multitude of prejudices. Whites still prejudice against minorities. Some minorities now prejudice against Whites. Tall people prejudice against those who are short, thin against those who are fat, gender prejudices, and the list continues. Taking this into consideration, you could rationalize that the main problem of today’s society is not “mostly” any one prejudice, but that based on who you are, “what” you are, and where you come from, you could logically see the prejudice you’ve been most exposed to as the biggest and most problematic. With that in mind, let it be known the author of “Race Matters,” Cornel West, a black man, was born in 1953, in the South, during the height of the black civil rights movement. Even since his elementary school career, he has spoken out and led protests against unfair and unequal treatment of African Americans. He received a top-level education at both Harvard and Princeton, where he received his PhD. In this particular piece of writing, as well as in much of West’s literature, it is his main objective to link black discrimination throughout the ages with a sort of resulting place he feels they hold today.

Although West states many opinions as facts, and seems to over-play many present-day faults of society, he does appear to be very well written and passionate. In one thoughtful remark he writes, “For one generation – thirty-five years – we have embarked on a multiracial democracy with significant breakthroughs and glaring silences.” (665). His distinction of democracy as being “multiracial” appears very un-American since the whole premise of democracy and our Lockean-Liberalism is the example of a rainbow of ethnicity all united as Americans under the belief and upheld faith in democracy. However, his later phrase of “glaring silences” is quite articulate and reminiscent of singer/songwriter Tracy Chapman’s lyric “We’re talkin’ about a revolution, it sounds like a whisper.” Both are quite appropriate and nicely-put since many times change was a hard and scary thing often without much of a voice.

To begin, West starts with a rather extremist view of black social history stating, “Black people in the United States differ from all other modern people owing to the u

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