Black_Like_Me

Black Like Me Black like me In John Howard Griffin’s book “Black Like Me”, Griffin takes a six week journey into the South as a black man by darkening his skin with medication. He travels for those six weeks attempting to discover what it was like to be black in the South during the late 1950’s. He found among other things a cruel segregated world. Griffin proves to be a noble man. He is unlike most of the whites were because he was not a racist. He saw all people as equals and despised the fact that blacks were considered so inferior. He wanted to make a difference, so by darkening his skin to appear black he was able to create a great novel in defense of African Americans. His encounters prove that there is no difference in humans based on skin color. Griffin’s decision to experience this nightmare was probably something no other white man would choose. This book has become a classic and effective teaching tool today. I was most interested to learn just how blacks were to other blacks. As Griffin traveled, so many different people he met treated him with black, like, me, people, white, one, man, blacks, whites, griffin, book, saying, much, found, during, time, take, skin, saw, men, just, griffin’s, fearful, difference, because, americans, african, world, way, unity, truth, treated, today, ten, south, six, showed