Weekly Blog 6

There were actually two readings that I really enjoyed and those were Walter White and Frederick Douglas. These two stories stood out to me more than the others because of the violence witnessed in their lives. In the first story I couldn't believe how people could act out of jealousy or hatred. I was also astonished at how children in all the stories were thrown into racial discrimination without prior knowledge. In the Fredrick Douglas story it moved me to see how determined he was to obtain knowledge and how that almost seemed more important to him than freedom. I think that this repsesents a lot of the struggles other african americans faced at this time and tried to overcome.