Yesterday I started reading the book Black Like Me written by John Howard Griffin. It is a nice little book that has been easy to read. I started reading it because Mrs. Kulyk had reccomended it to me. I am now about halfway through the book and it has been a very entertaining read. It hasn't only been that though it has also been very educational. I have gained a lot of new knowledge and even more questions. I wonder if the racial discrimination at that time period was still that bad. If so why haven't I ever heard about it? I thought that they were slaves and then they were free and that was that. Oh sure I knew the transition wasn't that quick and painless but I had no clue the discrimination was still that strong in the 1950s. Everyone knew the situation wasn't perfect or even good for that matter but this book reveals a very severe and different world from the one I know. How could you live in a world like that and not hate the whole world when you were always treated in such an unfair fashion? Another question I had was how could the author submitt himself to that if he knew it was even half that bad? Isn't that a lot of pain and agony for one book? I am glad he did now because I am enjoying reading the book but was it worth it for him? Was he glad he did this? Did he ever recieve negative percussions after his book came out because of what he did? I wonder if down in the south there is any prejudice still alive to this day? Why are people discriminated against because of their skin colour. There is really no difference between our races other than out colour, what made the African American race so hated. I will have to look into these questions in order to answer them, but till then I am going to go back to reading the book. Lol.