“What Do We Think Poverty Looks Like?” Rhetorical Precis
In her opinion piece “What Do We Think Poverty Looks Like?” (8 July 2017), Tracie McMillan argues that people usually have false interpretations of the poor in the United States due to the media that tends to portray poverty as rare for everybody except African Americans as well as implicit beliefs from Americans that poverty did not happen to whites. McMillan develops this argument by using personal anecdotes of her own reluctance in applying for food stamps that she believed she was not supposed to have as a white American and statistical data that shows the large misrepresentation of African Americans in poverty in comparison to white Americans that are underreported. McMillan’s
In her opinion piece “What Do We Think Poverty Looks Like?” (8 July 2017), Tracie McMillan argues that people usually have false interpretations of the poor in the United States due to the media that tends to portray poverty as rare for everybody except African Americans as well as implicit beliefs from Americans that poverty did not happen to whites. McMillan develops this argument by using personal anecdotes of her own reluctance in applying for food stamps that she believed she was not supposed to have as a white American and statistical data that shows the large misrepresentation of African Americans in poverty in comparison to white Americans that are underreported. McMillan’s