Black Like Me Book Report

Tim Wise is an American anti-racism activist and writer explains how our country has overcome quite a lot; slavery, Civil War, and segregation. Although we like to believe that we live in a post racial society, the fact is that racial inequalities still exist. Tim Wise published a book called White Like Me which draws upon a nonfiction book called Black Like Me by journalist John Howard Griffin first published in 1961 book; in the book, and in the later version which was made into a movie, Griffin, a white man, tells the story of how he darkened his skin with dye, medicine, and intense UV rays in order to experience what life was like for African-Americans in the pre-Civil Rights South of the 1950s. Griffin thought the only way to understand …show more content…
This person was able to beat the odds. So why in the world can’t you?” People then do not realize that one out of 40 million people have done something extraordinary. Even though it is a great accomplishment that we now have a black president there are still many blacks who are being as interviewer Michelle Alexander explains are more African Americans in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850. Many incidents that occur very often like the death of Adolph Archie had died due to police brutality; which is being brought into light more because of the media being so accessible to us.
In conclusion, the black community has come along long way not enough to start saying that we are living in a post racial society, because not only is that untrue, but it starts to make us blind to the injustice that is going on around us. We do need to question what whiteness means because it is still considered the dominate race, which is why when you are white you never have to worry whether or not you belong and thanks to the media, we are able to bring to light the social injustice done to the black community and act upon