While I sat back and read this book feelings in me became more and more evident as I went on in my reading. I am no where near "ok" with any type of racism and all of the things that happened to John upset me in the deepest fashion. It truly touched me and angered me at the same time. It makes me want to know this wonderful man. To be a relative, to be his friend, and to of helped him somehow in his conquest. I feel that if I were alive then, whether I was Black, White, Asian, or a Purple People Eater, I would have done something to help him in some fashion. I think that I am more of a leader than a follower... more of an activist. I stand for my rights as well as other people's rights.

I was very secure in my feelings through the book in that I was brought up to have an open mind about others racial backgrounds as well as my own. The whole concept of someone disliking someone else due to a racial difference baffles me. Differences between people are the one thing that holds are species together. We embrace it, but yet use it to discriminate, separate, and emotionally destroy others.

Recently the prevalent racism that has been in the news has been hate crimes. For example a Caucasian male chained an African-American male to the back of a vehicle and killed him by driving with him chained to the back. Things like this make the honest citizen shudder in disgust. Fortunately people like him get punished with long jail time, and even death. Most of the hate crimes lately are not geared towards African-Americans or other 'minorities' but to gay and lesbians. To me there is no difference between the two different kinds of injustice. They are both wrong and narrow-minded.

The face of the United States as of right now has no specific color. This is the country of immigrants. We have so many different races and ethnic backgrounds that take up this country that is has no specific color. A long time ago, it was mostly English settlements. Then came the French and so on. Now we have people from all over the world that speak many different languages. In 2040 I expect they're to be even more diversity then we already have. On the racial level I do not expect mush of a change. As time goes on the generations that slowly take over are more and more open-minded, making the world a little bit easier to live in for everyone. I do not expect the world to a happy-go-lucky place, but I do expect something better then what we have had in the past.

White Southerners automatically assumed that John was not intelligent because of his skin color, and that might have been tolerated in the early 1900's but today there are civil laws that citizens of the United States must abide by. In 1946, with the support of the NAACP, Herman Marion Sweatt applied for admission to The University of Texas School of Law. The University registrar rejected his application because Sweatt was an African American and The University of Texas was a segregated institution. Sweatt, with NAACP counsel, sued. Although Sweatt lost in state court, the United States Supreme Court on June 5th, 1950 ordered the integration of The University of Texas School of Law and also The University's Graduate School. This case set the precedence for all other institutions and made it possible for African-Americans to attend these schools.

Compare racism during the late 1950's to the racism of today. Give specific examples of situations from the book and from today's news reports.

Could you have become this involved in the race issue just to write a newspaper or magazine article? Defend your answer.

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