Racial And Gender Discrimation In Our Schools

responding to her, she leads you to a room which has six other prospective students. You

take a seat and wait your turn to be interviewed by the Dean of Admissions. Looking

around, you notice something odd. You are the only minority in the room. The Dean

steps out of his office and calls your name. He looks around and an apalled look comes across his face when you stand up. While in his office, the Dean asks you a few brief questions and he says that he will notify you once a decision is made. Two weeks later you get a call from the school and the person on the phone says that you were not accepted because all of the spaces have been filled. Later on that day, you are informed that the other six people who were in the waiting room with you were asked to be students at that institution. Now, think about how it would feel to be discriminated against because of your skin color or gender. Both Adrienne Rich and bell hooks speak of a similar discrimination. While Rich’s essay is a commencement speech for graduates of Smith college for women, hooks'

be united as a whole, which is hypocritical, I believe, because this gathering of women excludes

mama, "[her] voice sounds like a twelve year old" (94). The education gap between these two

discrimination, bell hooks talks about how her life has changed since she attended a multi-racial

generations is a sign that progress has been made in the educational system to give minorities a better chance in life.

university. She talks about how her parents were not "delighted that [she] had been accepted" and they "utterly opposed [her] going so far from home" (95). Hooks refers to how her parents felt about her going off to school why they were afraid of her doing so. Her parents did not understand why their daughter had to go to a distant college with mostly whites, rather than attending "a college nearby, an all-black college" (95). Although her parents were being discriminatory, it is because that was the way they were brought up. Her parents, I believe, are

of your life, it is still possible to overcome the restraints of this bias and receive the education

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