Essay
Section A

1. Give an outline of the different attitudes of the situation of African America.

The first text “Black is being seen in a whole new light” is about Yolanda Young(YY) experiences being black. She is a female lawyer and a columnist for ‘’USA Today’’ and she has been ignored by the society for two decades until a miracle, only black people would ever dream, about happened. Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States. You can say it became a bit easier being black when the big companies now began making black dolls and the society began listening to black stars as Tyra Banks and Naomi Campbell. Michelle Obama became a symbol for beauty which YY now could relate. African Americans were now met on the streets with a smile and a ‘’hello’’ from the white citizens of Washington. She writes about this experiment, where children have to choose between a black and a white doll in who is the prettier one and nearly all of them chose the white doll.

In text number 2, we have Eric Holder(EH), the Attorney General of the United States, making a speech. Overall his perspective on how U.S.A. handles different human races is positive. He finds it very important that every race is welcome, and he thinks that U.S.A. has done a great integration.

Walter Backstrom(WB) who is a columnist, writes the last text. WB thought that children in kindergarten only learned about ABCs and colours, but after a conversation with a kindergarten teacher, he now got another perception. She showed him a book about slavery. He believe that we continue to be obsessed with race.

2. Compare style, such as language and tone, in text 1 and 2.

The setting is bit different in the two texts. “Black History Month” by EH is a speech, and can therefore be a bit more advanced and formal that the first text. Maybe because it is speech to the Justice