Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeterum Summary

In almost all of the history books whether it’s America’s or another country, segregation between beings has been there because of the miscommunications of each other. Beverly Tatum’s “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” talked about Black and White students segregation in a school setting. Because Tatum used a lot of annotates to backed her points in her article makes herself credible, but because she used sweeping generalization, band wagon and ethos which prove that she is biased towards black students and against white students and did not really talked about other ethnic groups who could be in the same boat as either the White or Black students.
Sweeping generalizations was used in this article when Tatum talked

In her article, Tatum stated that “if you walk into racially mixed elementary school, you will often see young students of diverse racial background.” (375) compared to “any racially mixed high school cafeteria at lunchtime and you will instantly notice that in the sea of adolescent faces, there is an identifiable group of Black students sitting together.” (375). This passages creates curiosity for her readers to why she stated this and to question what their personal experience with racial diversity in their young age. Another example that Tatum used in her article is when she talked about her son, David being judge whenever he would meet someone new especially adults which would asked him his age and he would respond with “Don’t say it, I know. I’m tall for my age.” (376). In this Tatum is trying to prove that even at an early age kids also are being discriminated and readers should feel pity to the children since they are innocent and should feel anger to those who discriminated them. Even though using David to backed up her statement, this still shows that she is biased since David is her son and ofcourse she will embellish and make everyone sides with her son. Although many would argue that because David is her son, she has the primary viewpoint since she interacts with David on daily basis and would witness all that could and would discrimination to him by other people. Another time that Tatum used ethos is when she talked about the METCO program that has been done to young students in schools. This is an example of ethos since this program is specialized to help young children and ofcourse everyone wants to help and find solutions that are affecting young children. This is biased since she did not talk about this program having a positive impact to high school age or older students