Whose Canon is it, Anyways?

What I got from the reading was the author was pointing out that even today there is still racial and gender inequality. I know he was specifically pointing out that there is inequality among African-Americans ( he was talking about African-American literature/authors). And he didn't make a huge point about males being generally more 'powerful' in society. I know a good example is that the average women makes almost a dollar less an hour for the same job if a man was to work it. I honestly wouldn't be surprised (although I do not know for sure) if other races (besides white) were to make less than the average white male in terms of salary.

I will admit that there have been huge advances in terms of equality, both between races and genders, but it's sad that there is still such issues in terms of equality today. Basically what happens is nobody verbally says anything, but this issue just remains and unspoken undertone.

There needs to be some serious changes in society today, with all of the fighting that our country has fought for, we're just demeaning everything we've worked for. All those people who died for equality, died in the hopes that our society would smarten up and fix these obvious issues. We need to honor what so many people have fought for. The white man is no better than any race or gender.