The Death Of The Profane

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Too Hot To Handle

“The Death Of The Profane” is an exert from The Alchemy of Race and Right, written by Patricia J. Williams. She is a professor of law at Columbia University. The argument is valid, however she makes quick judgments, and goes so in depth regarding the legalities of telling her story, her reason for telling the story is lost.
The story begins in 1986, while shopping in Soho. She was denied admittance to a store and was told they were closed. Since it was 1:00p.m. this was untrue. She assumed the reason she was being turned away was because of her skin color. She is so enraged she wants to break through the window. Quickly she accused the white teen-aged clerk of being, “narrow-eyed”, as well as a, “sales child”.
She hung a poster telling her tale in the window of the store when it was truly closed. This was a way of exercising her first amendment right. The second attempt to tell her story did not go well. After the editing process, all of her fury, the store’s name, and even her race had been erased. She was told it was, “against ‘editorial policy’”. She was enraged, and eventually convinced the editors that mention of her race was essential to the story. She then told her tale at a law-school conference. This time she also told of her troubles while trying to have her story printed.
Overall, this is a justifiable argument, worth telling. However, the author is too bias for her own good, and her quick, fiery attitude prevents the telling of her story to go more smoothly....