"Other Places and Other Options" - Essay Comparing Henry Louis Gates "One Internet, Two Nations" and Matthew Symonds "Government and the Internet: Haves and Have-Nots"

Authors like Henry Lewis Gates Jr. and Matthew Symonds write essays, such as "One Internet, Two Nations" and "Government and the Internet: Haves and Have-Nots", about people who cannot afford to gain access to the Internet. They state that this is causing a digital divide in the world today. Gates turns this word digital divide into a racial word saying that there is a division between black and white people. Then you have people like …

…if these people went out and got better jobs they could afford the Internet and maybe if more schools offered courses on how to use the Internet more people would be interested in getting it. Do not blame the technology for people not having it; blame the people. And do not turn this into a race war when it is not, these authors need to conduct more investigation before they can even say such things.