Over the past several years another gap has formed separating both Whites and Blacks. This new gap has earned itself the name of "Digital Divide." This hole in american society is slowly tightening its grip on the neck of information available to many of its citizens, as well as inadvertently removing their rights to vote.
             If an organization was to disenfranchise someone, it would be removing this persons right as an American citizen. The person would be stripped of his or her ability to vote. Henry Lewis Gates who believes that the lack of African American centered entertainment on the internet will eventually disenfranchise their voting rights, as well as widen the gap that separates the two sides of the "Digital Divide."
             The internet it practically an infinite supply of knowledge open to all of those who are willing to seek it out. Unfortunately, these days knowledge must entertain to entice a reader or seeker. However, the corporate world is able to read statistics. In his essay "One Internet, Two Nations" Gates mentions that a higher percentage of white Americans are buying computers then are African Americans, which means that their merchandising and entertainment is aimed primarily at those who buy the computers. This audience is, of course, white people. Due to these high white buyer percentage, the corporations have little desire to entertain the black community. Because of this lack of corporate initiative, the black community has developed little need for computers. This is called the Digital Divide. The digital divide is the term used to describe the gap that separates African Americans and white Americans in their computer owning uses. White Americans can find entertainment easily on the internet because it is directed towards them. African Americans can find little directed towards them. This is why in many ways, the Afridcan American culture has become left behind of ...