His people were expected to be uneducated. ... People won't take you seriously either if you are not literate. ... Some people will take advantage of the fact that some people aren't highly literate. ... In Malcolm X's essay "Learning to Read" he wrote that "my homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America" (pg.253 para. 37). ... A person could lose everything they thought they knew about the world and people when they are ed...

• Word Count: 1991
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School