James Balwins essay, notes of a native son discusses the issues of civil rights. He is a first hand witness to the horrors or racsism. Written in the 1950’s, James Baldwin spent about then years writing. I was searching for this book online and I finally found it “http://books.google.com/books?id=HDnxq1cyEq4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=notes+of+a+native+son&source=bl&ots=zJokBpzFPJ&sig=XKaN0ttz52zmN_qB_6EavsO6LZc&hl=en&ei=Ys6vTJeCEoOesQPdk9z8Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&sqi=2&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=falsef”
After reading, I couldnt belive how far we’ve come with discrimination and segegation. Yes, it still is not perfect but nothing in this world ever is. Let’s just be glad that the riots and seperate bathrooms are behind us. Baldwin writes “disease—cancer, perhaps, or tuberculosis—which must be checked, even though it cannot be cured.’’ This is refering to the effect the whites thought of the blacks at that time. That quote hit home for me than any other.
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