Tantum Article

(8.) Missing information can have similar effects. For example, another young woman, preparing to be a high school English teacher, expressed her dismay that she had never learned about any Black authors in any of her English courses. How was she to teach about them to her future students when she hadn’t learned about them herself? A White male student in the class responded to this discussion with frustration in his journal, writing, “It’s not my fault that Blacks don’t write books.” Had one of his elementary, high school, or college teachers ever told him that there were no Black writers? Probably not. Yet because he had never been exposed to Black authors, he had drawn his own conclusion that there were none.

I think this is a significant part of the article because the English teacher, has never read a book written by a Black author. If you're an English teacher, you should read any book that seems interesting right? English teachers should know that anybody can write books. I wrote some questions like "Why hasn't she ever read books by people with different backgrounds?" and "Why can't she?" The White male student doesn't seem so bright either. He says "It's not my fault that Blacks don't write books." He actually doesn't know the author's ethnicity that writes the books. There's usually a picture in the back, but sometimes there isn't.