Gates

I tried to read Gate's "Whose Cannon is it Anyway?" and found it to be kind of confusing as if I was not sure what he was trying to get at. I found it interesting what he had to say about, "men are men and men were white,when scholar-critics were white men and when women and people of color were voiceless." I was confused when he started talking about western tradition. I do not know if I percepted it wrong or if I just did not understand it.