In biology we are learning about the heart! It's probably a nice thing I'm watching Grey's Anatomy, especially since I'm now really interested in anatomy right now. In Modern Lit we're reading this book called Black Like Me and the guy wrote this based off his experience in 1950s when he turned his skin black so he could understand what it was like to be a black person. A lot of the kids in my class don't want to even bother with reading it, but they don't know how truly AMAZING this historical account truly is. I mean, someone was brave enough, in 1950s United States of America, to pretend to be black so they could get an actual account of what it truly was to be black.
What my classmates don't understand is that racism is still alive in America today. Oh, it's not as bad as what it used to be, but really think about. African Americans get less pay than white skinned Americans, they are forced to blend into our white society, forced to ACT white, and if they aren't a part of the white society they are looked at with fear and disgust. How horrible this kind of life truly is. And that is our society today! Look at what racism has done to us; it's "forced" a police officer to kill a black boy, it's "forced" several officers that uphold the law of the United States to take innocent lives. That is what my generation doesn't understand and I find that truly sad.
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