Read the excerpt from My Story. The first-person narration in this excerpt best helps
Here it was, half a century after the first segregation
readers understand
law. and there were 50,000 African Americans in
Montgomery. More of us rode the buses than
• facts about bus ridership.
Caucasians did, because more whites could afford
• the anger black people felt.
cars It was very humiliating having to suffer the
O why segregation started.
indignity of riding segregated buses twice a day, five
• statistics about Montgomery.
days a week, to go downtown and work for white
people.
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Read the excerpts from “take the tortillas out of your poetry” and “speaking arabic.” my friend had concluded that if he took his language and culture out of his poetry, he stood a better chance of receiving a fellowship. he took out his native language, the poetic patois of our reality, the rich mixture of spanish, english, pachuco and street talk which we know so well. in other words, he took the tortillas out of his poetry, which is to say he took the soul out of his poetry. at a neighborhood fair in texas, somewhere between the german oom-pah sausage stand and the mexican gorditas booth, i overheard a young man say to his friend, “i wish i had a heritage. sometimes i feel—so lonely for one.” and the tall american trees were dangling their thick branches right down over his head. which best states how the structures of both excerpts support ideas about cultural diversity? each incorporates non-english words. each incorporates academic words. each incorporates offensive words. each incorporates nonsense words.