As we live in the world African Americans get shamed for being illiterate, but other races don’t understand that every culture is brought up differently. Whether its language, or cultural practices the way our culture is brought up we use those practices to tell our story. For example, each tattoo that we put on our body represents a symbol that tells a story of either a struggle or success, and that translates to our literacy purpose. Not all literacy purposes have to be spoken with words it can be expressed through symbols, and people consider African Americans illiterate because the literacy everyone uses is different. Some of the languages that black people understand other races may not, but just because one race can’t interpret a certain
