In her article on Mike Tyson, "Requiem for the Champ", June Jordan writes, "The choices available to us dehumanize." (p468). What does she mean by this? Write your reaction and opinion to the position she takes in this article.

June Jordan writes in reference to Bigger Thomas murdering two women as "The choices available to us dehumanize." What she means by this is that Mike Tyson and Bigger Thomas grew up in a neighborhood where they know nothing else.  The hatred they've received throughout their life has caused them and others growing up under rough conditions and where constant acts of hate occur to dehumanize their choices and actions.

I think this is true to a certain extent, but I myself have been fortunate enough to have grown up barely received any hatred and barely any oppression  in a beautiful neighborhood.  Therefore, it's impossible for me to believe or convince myself murder or violence is okay.