“Black Like Me” is a novel about the true experiences of a white novelist, John Howard Griffin, a Southern white man who changed his skin color to become a black man. John took treatments to darken his skin and even left his family in Texas to travel throughout the South. During his journey, he experienced discrimination and segregation on buses, restrooms, eating places, hotels, and even walking on the street. He trudges south streets searching …showed first 75 words of 930 total…

…showed last 75 words of 930 total…ignorance in the world. To help people understand and become aware of this problem, I would recommend that everyone read this book. In the novel, John Griffin states clearly that whites go so far as to teach their children to call names. He states that “Whites teach their children to call them “niggers” (Griffin 169). Our worst nightmare is to be silent and not teach our children to learn to become more tolerant toward other people.