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[ll_rocks]

I had to read John Howard Griffin's book "Black Like Me" for my sociology class. It is, by far, one of the most difficult books I have ever had to read. For those of you who haven't a clue what the book is about, basically, Griffin decided to see what life was really like for a black person in the deep south in the late 1950s. So, he decided that

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[codiddy]

I've been meaning to read Black Like Me for several years now. Perhaps this post will inspire me to add it to my winter reading list.

One thing I was very surprised by is your claim that the situation of Blacks in the South is the same as Jews with Nazis. Although there was widespread discrimination and harassment, and isolated (although still far too common) incidents of murders/lynchings (in which the caucasian perpetrators were rarely brought to criminal justice), I feel is is distinctly different from government sanctioned genocide.

[supermanskivves]

that sounds like a sweet book man.

I'm still all disappointed because I thought you were coming home haha but! I hope you enjoy broken social scene for me. I told cory to hit that up too, you should also try to convince him to go.

[ll_rocks]

wait. cory's in calgary?