Most of us believe that we should pat ourselves on the back for changing racism over the years but we really shouldn’t because even though most African Americans aren’t being treated so beastly as they were back then, they are still being discriminated today. They aren’t being enslaved physically but mentally because people make assumptions that they are all terrible and …show more content…
They didn’t talk explain much about Brown v. Board and everything he went through to so the Little Rock nine could attend Central High School.They focused on why they were attending an all white school and none of them had no problem expressing their feelings to Elizabeth as she walked to school that day, especially Hazel Bryan. “And America saw her, haunted and taunted for the simple color of her skin, and in the image we caught a very disturbing glimpse of ourselves ” (205). Yet the ones who actually wanted to help her out continued to stand there like sitting ducks because they were too scared to actually do anything about