Stereotypes Book Report

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In the Book That means old yesterday Stay Patton audiences were white Upper/Middle class people as well as the African American Community. Stacy purpose for targeting these people because she want them to come together as a whole to understand how history, culture, stereotypes ,discrimination physical, and mental abuse that African America’s Has stuffed from. She does this by talking about the working thought-out explaining history and try to fits the things that has made the separation between the two community’s. She express her pain while relating it to all the links of slavery history and children who are adoption who doesn’t know their parents .Stacy express her abuse sexually, mentally and emotionally she had to deal with as a child …show more content…
Not only did this book explain that whipping children is abuse it made change my actions. In this book it explain that blacked were told to weapon their children because they wasn’t as child was a good as a white children. This made me understand this was inappropriate to treat any children this way. As Stacy Quoted “I just thought this was normal or a Black thing”. Growing I didn’t question my parents you are told never to question what you parents asked you to do or what they were doing to you. Us as people where told never to questioned people who has power of you but, as people we all can be wrong because we are all human which mean that we always can learn something new or be wrong about things we believe …show more content…
For me I felt as she was telling some of my life story over that I had to as experiences growing as a child. I felt if this book was made just for me, as that I would learn for it as take something from it. I would say this book really educated myself and I will be to give my children the best in the future just from this one book. Everything was very clearly also it was like watching a movie about a child who would’ve made you want to provide and apperceive her childhood precious life that her Adoptive parents Myrtle and George that took for granted. As Stacy Explain what she had to bear as child you could see everything in your head as a picture of a timeline. Stacy had to go thought has an still suffer from PTSD disorder and anxiety .From an clinical and medical perceptive and child that has to experiences this will always has the deal trauma and to seek counseling for all their pain and discomfort they had to tolerate and withstand in the lifespan

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