"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 me who believe that it is not the price of the Internet that is the problem, it is the people who do not have it. You cannot blame the Internet for something…