Blog #6 Growing Up Black

After reading "Growing Up Black", I found Gordon Parks story to be the most interesting. This story was extremely hard for me to read due to all the intense description of the horrible murders, but it really showed a lot of courage from Parks. I found one quote that really made me think about what African Americans went through as children, "I was stoned and beaten and called "n*****," "black boy," "darky," "shine." These indignities came so often I began to accept them as normal." This is shocking how a young child was almost forced to except these awful, harsh, names. Later on in the story he even states, "that he is just lucky to be alive." I can't even picture anyone even saying that just due to the color of their skin. I liked Gordon Parks story the best because of how brave Parks really was as a child. Also how he had such a harsh childhood and then was still able to be very successful later on as a photographer, and composer.