Blog #6

I really enjoyed reading all of these stories from autobiographies. The first one, by Walter White, stood out the most to me and I learned the most from this one. He said a great quote on page 6, "when I was thirteen, we were taught that there's no isolation in life." I always thought that blacks and whites went to their separate neighborhoods, and nothing was really happened unless both parties crossed paths. In hindsight, this was really naive of me. I was imagining that the races would 'do battle' like something out of West Side Story, where they would meet up at a park or a playground and fight. I learned from this story that whites were basically hunters, and according to White, they were trying "to clear out the blacks". There was really no safe place for blacks to like in the early 1900's. Whites would go where ever they lived and force them to move out. The story was short but it was suspenseful for me. It really gave me some insight on how African Americans had to live a lifestyle that was always clouded by fear and how hard it was to live a normal life in the early 1900's.