Racism In Black Like Me

America has grown and developed exponentially positive throughout the past centuries. We have won two world wars and expanded basic human rights to all females and colored people but one brutal fact remains, racism is still very alive. Although it is nowhere near as bad and cruel as it was during the 1950’s (as “Black Like Me” depicts so accurately) racism is absolutely unacceptable even if it is miniscule. John Howard Griffin courageously went against the overwhelming wave of popular racism in America and dissected the truth and made it public for all people to know about. He used a special medicated dye that temporarily changes his skin the brown just as the Negroes. He proved that most whites only discriminated against Negroes merely and ignorantly because of their skin color and not because their quality as a human being. I have completely understood the parallels that lie in between this book and today’s society by reading and comparing “Black Like Me” to modern society and pop culture. I understand that although racism has been cut down immensely over the past few decades it is still very alive and its ignorance and hypocrisy is a plague to the developing human race. In John Howard Griffin’s documented experience he clearly proves the ignorance of racist whites in the segregated south of America. The excuse that
He tried to make people view colored people as humans and not just Negroes. This attempt could also be used the same exact way but instead directed towards the police who incorrectly victimized African Americans in Modern America. This problem is not exclusive to the African Americans in the United States but also to the Christians being killed solely because of their religion. They are being viciously murdered and recorded by Muslim jihad extremists to try to drive out Christianity in their