Grace

Dear Marc Aronson,  Your book, __Race__, taught me a lot about how extreme racism was. Before reading it I had no idea how hard it was for not only black people, but immigrants from other countries as well to get by in America. The whole concept of having to be “white” was new to me and it taught me a lot about how close minded and fearful our country was of people who were different. I always knew about slaves and how poorly they were treated, but reading your book deepened my knowledge and sadness about some of the events that happened in our country’s past.  I appreciated how you started your book with a story telling your readers that you are prejudiced. It helped me not to fell that you thought you were any better than your readers. I also appreciated how you told us your negative opinion about Germans, but I don’t agree with it. It’s very true that Germany did horrible things to the Jews and other minority people groups during the Holocaust, but most of the people living in Germany now are not at all happy with what they did. The Germans admit their faults to the rest of the world so everyone will be aware of the terrible time. The Holocaust is by no means something that is easy to admit to having done. Most of them never want the Holocaust or anything close to it to ever happen again. The people there now are just like us. Is that not what you were trying to get us to realize throughout the entire book? Overall, though, I very much enjoyed reading __Race__. I thought it was well written, engaging, and very informative.  From, Grace