Is It Your Opinion?

Reading Chapter 13, made me think how when we read opinion pieces and articles, we take what the writer is saying to heart. We read something for the first time and we take a stand on it as soon as we hear something we like or do not like. Our opinion of the writer may have change for better or worst. We defend our beliefs and when someone talks down about it, we get mad. But don’t people have the right to write, speak, and think what ever they want. We forget that we do have the bill of rights to protect our speech and us. That is why when we write we have to be careful on how we are portraying a message because the wrong message may come across.

In Chapter 13, I liked the first article by Robert Bapitiste because I felt like he wasn’t pushing the idea of highly qualified educators on a reader. I felt like he knew what he was talking about and that he was confident enough in his community to argue about the mistreatment of the elders because they didn’t have college degrees to teach. Compare to the article written by E.J. Montini, I felt like he was trying to brand the word squaw into my head. The over usage of that word turned me off to his article, but that is just my opinion. I feel when we first start to read an article we shouldn’t judged it when we come across something we don’t like. But I guess it’s just programmed for us to have an opinion about everything without knowing the facts.