Report On Book Titled Black Li

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it to discriminate, separate, and emotionally destroy others.
In Black Like Me, John was a white man that stepped into the dark dismal life of a black man in the Southern region of the United States. He thought that he had prepared for it but nothing could prepare him for the hard life of desperation, lewd and ludicrous comments, aw well as hate stares that had no basis for even existing except for pure ignorance.
When contemplating over what I would do in the various situations that he encountered in his travels throughout the south, I realized that I would have been murdered due to a lack of respect for anyone who had a lack of respect to me. I would have psychologically snapped on someone somewhere along the line and lost control. I like to debate over things with others and argue my point until it is at least seen why I feel the way that I do, even if the person(s) so not feel the same way as I do.
I feel as if sitting back and letting bigotry and hatred hover over people ...

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and people use their intelligence to the fullest, then I will stop speaking and think of my species a little higher. When the wars stop, and the hatred is gone, only then will I not complain, not write in my notebooks of hope, not contemplate the way things should be. Until that day comes I will try to get my voice to be heard. I will help those in need, and try to live the most satisfying life I can live.
Could you have become this involved in the race issue just to write a newspaper or magazine article? Defend your answer.
To become involved like John Griffin did simply for a magazine would be ludicrous. He put his life on the line as well as his family’s lives. John had another ...

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