Racism In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life Of Bees

Racism is a very strong word. To many people, it means many different things. The actual definition is when a person or group of people feels superior to another because of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or simply who they are. So pretty much what makes a person human. Every since the Americans first brought over the slaves from Africa, racism has been a problem. Since the 1930s, after the Civil War, racism still exist in North America, and in the most awful ways possible. From there, racism has changed greatly. It is difficult to say whether or not that change has been good or bad, but just the fact that it has changed should be enough. Think about it; before, humans were using whips and nooses, but now, people use guns and poison.
In the book The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, a black nanny was going to get her voting license. She was very proud of herself, and dressed all nice and fancy so she can prove that even black women have style. As she is walking towards the town, three white men stop her in her tracks. As they ferociously ask her why on Earth she would believe that a black woman would be able to vote, she pours all of her spit that she held in a flask onto their shoes. Of course they fought her, and she didn’t fight back, but was arrested anyway. She had to get stitches on her head, then put back in jail, but was rescued by the child she was a nanny for. The point of this a was that this lady fought for what she thought was right in the country: black women voting. In the beginning of the book, when the nanny is describing what she did and why she did it, she makes sure she leaves out no details on how cruel the white men were being, which explains that the situation in fact did have to do with racism. In the movie Ernest Green, who is now known as the Little Rock Nine, was going to school as any other regular teen… except the fact that they went to an all black school. When offered the chance to segregate to the all white high school, they are all determined to graduate and do their best in life, but are robbed of that opportunity by all the students except one. They stuck with it anyway, and disregarded
Since the Civil War, all slaves had the right to be treated as equals, but instead are treated like tiny insects. They were no longer slaves, but were they really racially free? the answer to that is no. However, even if they aren’t racially free, they are still human. Granted, racism has changed since the 1930s, but really, how much? In Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, a family was forced into fighting for themselves and their rights, because no one would do it for them. Now, people don’t have to do that, because it’s not only racism that has changed, but the world. Do you see a little girl with her head down walking through town just because she is afraid that people will comment that she is black and will hurt her? No? Exactly. You may say, well what about 9/11? That was an act of racism, wasn’t it? As a reply, one might say, yes it was an act of racism, but not one that had targeted the entire country, and revert family living everywhere, just certain parts of the country. Now, the only common racist problem would be the lives of innocent African-American lives being taken, but if we just forget about race, and forget about what makes a race, then the country would be just fine. As far as I’m concerned, there are no people anywhere who aren’t allowed to use a bathroom because their