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The Internet gives us as an audience a variety of different types of websites that can help construct our lives using different types of languages, dialects, and ways of speaking. We see new ways of writing and speaking just by associating ourselves with people on the Internet. We are able to completely change our personality and the person that we truly are because the Internet gives a mysterious vibe to us all. We can discuss creative ideas and thoughts that we might be embarrassed or too scared to discuss to others in person.  The bet.com website, gives people the option to express their emotions about different views on recent news, music, and politics. Having a place to do this is comforting to know that you can be whoever you want to be.

 In the following reading, Knadler possesses a emotion toward people not having to be afraid of who they really are and how they speak without having to feel offended or ashamed. "Finding the ideal community where she no longer has to explain or apologize for her "Blackness" and where others understand her as she understands herself"(Knadler 236). There are many similarities that are discussed within this reading and also on the bet.com website. They both are able to give their audiences the ability to be who they want to be, and if writing in Ebonics is there thing, and then go right ahead.  On the Bet website, many users use their free will to speak as they wish willingly, for example many users use phrases such as, “ Uz hoes be trippin on nuttin you got.”

Although many speak as they wish, the Internet still doesn’t dismiss all racial comments. "There is still going to be racism on the Internet, even though we don't know who they are. With in black culture, kinky is usually negatively connected words used to describe or express an aesthetic evaluation of hair texture that is tightly coiled or nappy"(Spellers 225). This is able to portray the ability to be whom you want to but, there are many who still feel racism will never end.