solved Paper #2 – Letter to a Friend – (100 pts)

Paper #2 – Letter to a Friend – (100 pts) this paper will evaluate your engagement with the Oluo text, So You Want to Talk About Race, and your ability to make a respectful, eloquent, and factual argument countering racism. In this paper, you are asked to use five ideas from the Oluo book in a letter to a friend, roommate, family member, or coworker (of course you can use pseudonyms) who you see as espousing racist views, denying racism or privilege, and/or ignoring/denying systemic, institutional racism, countering this person’s racism with facts and arguments from the Oluo book. It is fair to include how their racism has made you feel, but the bulk of the paper needs to show your familiarity with the Oluo book. The letter can be to a fictional/composite person (maybe no ONE person in your life has made the five racist comments/arguments you are refuting in this paper and that is okay). The objectives of this assignment are first, to show you read and understood Oluo’s book. Second, to be able to talk about race, racism, and privilege in an informed way. Third, is to be able to make your argument in a respectful way (which is why I am asking you to write it to someone specific, someone you know; this is not going to be an angry diatribe you would anonymously post online – by the way, the problem with that would not be your anger over racism; it would be the anonymity and what happens to our attention to detail when we are not accountable). This paper is to be 3-4 pages in length, double-spaced, 12-point font, citing the Oluo book where appropriate, using ASA formatting.