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Blinded by the White

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Blinded by the White

          By: Tim Wise

When I read the title of this essay I actually knew right off the bat what the story probaly was going to be about....I assumed that the story would be about someone who is black does something that the whites don't like..so they try to send him to prison or get put out of the neighborhood..then in the ling run, maybe a few years down the road a white man comes and do the same thing that the black man did && they over look him..they feel as though it wasn't harm to anyone..I felt that they don't treat blacks with the same authority as the whites.. 

  •Typically when I  think of my dream community it would probably consist of a big yard, good school, good neighbors & a shopping mall.. Now the question that im curious about would they be black neighbors? Well I  mean probably not, it would be my typical well raised folks:"white folks"!!! Lol

  •Every time I  hear of a black child writing, reading, or speaking violence the solution seems to come easy to me && most other black people.. Such answers might include kicking them out of school, sending them to a foster home, counseling, or to jail.. I strongly believe that the same behavior from a white child would have been met with the same mind set..bt probably not in this day in age...as for example in the seventh paragraph it says," Of couse not.But that's actually what happened when at the same school, int his same community, two white students from "Good Families" began dressing alike, saying they hated everyone, calling themselves the "Trenchcoat Mafia," listening to "shock rock" and the sometimes violent lyrics of white musical artist, showing off their guns and murder fantasies on film.." Still seen as "basically normal kids" by their families, friends, and teachers, these two would be ignored. I feel

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