Joy Degruy A Trip To The Grocery Store Analysis

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After watching the Cracking the Codes: Joy DeGruy "A Trip to the Grocery Store" video, I felt deeply to connected to the message in this video. I understood what Joy DeGruy was saying because I went to a private school that had a similar atmosphere. My school was majority white. It was an accepting school, and I did not feel discriminated against because of my race, but I did see the effects of money on a school. In my graduating class, there was a group of white children whose parents donated money to the school. Their parents made sure the school put them in accelerated and honors classes in middle school, so in the future they would stay ahead in high school. The solution was unfair because the children who had middle class parents (this

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