Compare And Contrast Mcwhorter And Evelyn

"To the Academy with Love, from a Hip Hop Fan," and "How Hip Hop Holds Blacks Back." These are two articles, the first from Evelyn, and the second from McWhorter, that address the hip hop culture in very different ways and with very different objectives. While Evelyn and McWhorter have a similar diction and tone, Evelyn's article is more effective because of the goal she is trying to reach as well as the solutions she has provided. The way that Evelyn presents her article is from her heart, and I would dare to say that not many people could actually say that about McWhorter's article, that is unless McWhorter is just a narrow minded critic. I believe that Evelyn addresses her concerns using common logic while McWhorter uses random stereotypical situations as examples, which in my opinion is trying to make the stereotype of "blacks" worse than it already is.

Evelyn has an elaborate vocabulary and talks to us in a very serious, yet caring tone that makes us think she is speaking out of love. Her overall general concern makes me think she really cares a lot about this subject. I believe she is appealing to common logic; however I do not get a sense of arrogance from her writing. Although Evelyn has an extensive vocabulary and is obviously a very well educated woman, her tone is caring and authentic.

McWhorter, like Evelyn, has an extensive vocabulary and seems to be a very well educated man. McWhorter also establishes a sense of care, but in a different way, partly because their arguments differ so greatly. The type of care that I believe McWhorter establishes is not one to better any society, though I believe it is only addressing something

that personally bothers him, but what it is that bothers him is the whole generation and the stereotype's that have been placed on particular groups of people in that generation. I also feel that McWhorter seems to be arrogant, though I am not sure if others would feel the same way. McWhorter is in my opinion a lot like Evelyn in the extensive vocabulary they use, and they both appear to be very well educated, but I would venture to say that is where the comparativeness of these to articles ends, and the conversation of contrasting the two begins.

Evelyn is trying to achieve a better understanding of a culture that our generation has become accustomed, from older generations that do not approve of our culture. The way she addresses the reader is authentic and I believe and I believe that she is trying to teach others how to better adapt to our culture. Evelyn wants to better us as a whole, by helping those who refuse to give our culture a chance understand where it is that we are coming from. Evelyn's goal is easy to see, and even easier to understand.

McWhorter's goal is a little bit harder to see, and I don't feel that he gets his point across very well. It almost seems that McWhorter just simply wrote this article to criticize our generation and the hip hop culture. Unlike Evelyn, McWhorter is not trying to better our culture or even to have a better understanding of it. McWhorter has no apparent goal to me except to criticize our culture and or completely exterminate it.

Evelyn has a very clear conclusion that offers a very intelligent solution of trying to expand other generation's mindsets that are typically judgmental with stereotypes. Evelyn is reaching out to the teachers, professors, and academic leaders of our nation. She is asking

them to try to understand, and to learn about our culture and why it is we do what it is that we do. Essentially, Evelyn offers us a solution on how to better our culture, and instead of arrogance, she sounds full of love and compassion. She speaks from her heart and is really