Malcolm X while in prison decides to start writing to friends he had been with in the thieving and doping world who unfortunately never replied to his letters because they were too uneducated to write a letter. Some of his friends who were slick and sharp-looking and could be mistaken for Wall Street big pots unfortunately hired people to read them letters if they received one. Malcolm X was also caught up in that similar situation and would never reply to letters that were written to them (Blesok, 2012). These experiences made him acquire homemade education. While Malcolm X struggled with lack of education, Richard Rodriguez who was living in a working class neighborhood in Sacramento had a slightly different experience. His parents could afford education for him and his siblings. His elder brother and sister left their books on the table next to the door closed firmly behind them after school probably closing a chapter on school...
In fact he says that "Later on, I even wrote to the Mayor of Boston, to the Governor of Massachusetts, and to Harry S. Truman (Rodriguez, 1975). They never answered; they probably never even saw my letters. I hand scratched to them how the white man's society was responsible for the black man's condition in this wilderness of North America."That is also true with Rodriguez who is a son of working class Mexicans learning in a school where English is the mode of instruction. He reiterates that an accident of geography sent him to a school where all his classmates were white many of whom were children of doctors, lawyers, and business executives.
Richard's first language is Spanish but because he lives in a neighborhood where virtually everybody communicates in…
