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Rhetorical Analysis (Jordan)

“Nobody means more to me than you and the future life of Willie Jordan” by June Jordan was published in: On Call: Political Essays. This was published in 1985. June Jordan was a poet, playwright, essayist, and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She was also a Jamaican American self-identified bisexual. She was also inducted on the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor within the Stonewall National Monument in 2019. Her topics of inquiry included representation, immigration, race, and gender. Jordan had a strong commitment to utilizing Black English in her poetry and writing, and she encouraged others to do the same. Black English serves as an essential means for conveying Black culture. Jordan’s audience was her students and she wanted to expand their idea of Black English. Jordan remembers the course “In Search of the Invisible Black Woman”. Her students were unenthused with the book they read which was the color purple. They were not pleased with how it was written they voiced how the language was wrong in this book.Jordan highlights two stories together, one concerning a class she taught on Black English and the other concerning Willie Jordan, a black student in the class trying to come to terms with injustice in South Africa while facing the death of his brother through police brutality at home. Willie Jordan struggles to explain his own knowledge of oppressive power against the backdrop of Jordan’s account about how her students came to appreciate the clarity and communicative potential of Black English.Jordan allowed different ideas to flow when the students help write as Reggue Jordan, one particular art is when the rookie cop spoke up to clarify  cops action. “Most times when you out on the street and something come down you do one of two things. Over-react or under-react …But what you have to understand is what kilt him: Over-reaction. That’s all”. This black student, also a rookie cop, delves on the idea that some injustices isn’t about race just by overreaction. But this idea was subject to ignorance in a way and the rest of her students saw that. But as we continue in the text the pieces where the students help write about the death of Reggie Jordan were not selected in the newspaper. This text is served in the learning contents of university students.  She understands and knows the issue that she raises in depth, as she  has experienced it herself. She succeeds in fostering in her students a topic of contemplation, analysis, and debate, which encourages more and more generations to think about an alternative society. June Jordan showed importance to black English as well importance in the injustices in our society by just teaching her students about different forms of english specifically Black English to make them gain a better understanding if black culture.