
Lately I've Been into a book called "Black like me" By John Howard griffin (My Sis Suggested this book to me). You can Probably tell by the Title of this book it is about racism against African Americans, in which case they call them Negros. It Talks about a white Journalist in the 1950's, who uses a medication to turn his skin into a darker shade to pass as a Negro, exchanging his luxurious life into a mistreated life, simply because his skin was black. I found this very interesting, because how the whites, just took a glance at the black and instantly give them something like death stares, not for who they are, or their occupation, but for the color of their skin, just the color.As i move more into the book, Mr.Griffin Moves from New Orleans deeper into the south, receiving more hostility as he moved further in, They didn't even allow him the right to stand in one particular spot, Racist? Yeah that's incredibly not fair. But The Blacks Treated him like family.It's such a big line, difference between what color your skin is. If u were White u got hostile stares from African Americans, If u were African American you got Hostile stares from White, no matter where u are in south it was like that, except the whites seemed to have more power. In my Opinion it was hte Hardest for the African Americans.
Story Summary:In the Deep South of the 1950s, a color line was etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross that line. Using Medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man.
What happened the John Howard Griffin--from the outside and within himself--as he made his way through the segregated Deep South is recorded in this searing work of nonfiction.His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about a race and humanity every American must read.
This was a book i just liked a lot and wanted to write a blog about it, i am not advertising this book or w.e. And all of this is my opinion. Summary i did not write.
So if they stopped racism between human Beings, what about all the animals the humans are harming our there? Racism toward Animals?
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