Uh, 30 years ago!? It’s from 1961. And I’m not sure what I think about that book. It’s old and most likely comes nowhere near the truth of what actual black people have actually been through since 1865. What I do know is that we cannot allow the country to go back to pre Civ War times. Which is what these white Christian republican motherfuckers want!
Uh, 30 years ago!? It’s from 1961. And I’m not sure what I think about that book. It’s old and most likely comes nowhere near the truth of what actual black people have actually been through since 1865. What I do know is that we cannot allow the country to go back to pre Civ War times. Which is what these white Christian republican motherfuckers want!
I don't think Black Like Me was necessarily the whole picture. But for someone who grew up with no black children in my school until I was 11, and with none in my neighborhood, it told me that a) they WERE people just as I was, even if they looked different, and b) they were not being viewed or treated fairly, by the same standard that white people were. For me, it was life-altering.
Uh, 30 years ago!? It’s from 1961. And I’m not sure what I think about that book. It’s old and most likely comes nowhere near the truth of what actual black people have actually been through since 1865. What I do know is that we cannot allow the country to go back to pre Civ War times. Which is what these white Christian republican motherfuckers want!
I don't think Black Like Me was necessarily the whole picture. But for someone who grew up with no black children in my school until I was 11, and with none in my neighborhood, it told me that a) they WERE people just as I was, even if they looked different, and b) they were not being viewed or treated fairly, by the same standard that white people were. For me, it was life-altering.