John Griffins Black Like Me :: Black Like Me Essays

John Griffins Black Like Me      All men are created equal... or are they?  John Griffins Black Like Meshows how racism is nothing much then the foolish misunderstanding of man.Whites current superiority hangs in the balance as Blacks become tired of beingthe minority, in the late 1950s.  Even though this struggle isnt as dreadfulas it was then, it still exists.  The certainty of racism cant be ignored butit will soon disappear as generations mix.  racial discrepancies challenge theunity of human civilization.      John Griffin had a biting curiosity which he could no protracted stand.  Whatwas life truly like, for a disconsolate man in the deep south?  He sought the realanswer to this by darkening his pelt with extreme amounts of medication.  A newskin color determines everything and John is now thrown into a new world that hewas in no way prepared for. He was no longer John, an average but respectedwhite noveli st, he was a black man and that is all that mattered.  Simplepleasers like a drink of water or the use of a restroom become near impossible.John, at first was puzzled by this, but soon realized that it was not hispersonality, his age, but his blackamoor that made him a disgrace in the eyes ofan average white person.  If he were white, a white store owner would have nothesitated in the slightest to allow such privileges.  How could these people beso blind as to not see that a black person breathes the aforesaid(prenominal) air, eats the samefood, and has the same internal functions as themselves?  This misunderstandingstares them in the face and they cant see it. Their selfishness and fear iscompletely unnecessary but it remains because the whites have never been clearto any other way of life.  This is why the whites can not allow such commonprivileges to Mr. Griffin or any other black person.  To cross a black as anequal was absolutely unheard of. &nb sp    Fatigued from rejection and many actions which would be declaredunconstitutional, the blacks must do something so their future generations donot suffer the same.  This desire for action only stirs a greater terror withinthe (racist) white community.  People like, Martin Luther King Jr. begin tosurface. He and many others aspire to show the blacks that they are equal humanbeings.  Its strange to think that most blacks thought a white was better justbecause that is what they were brought up to believe.  This new realization