Race Against Time

by Song, Sydney S.; Meyers-hanson, Cynthia

• ISBN13: 9781463542276
• ISBN10: 1463542275
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-05-28
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Summary

This middle or high school level book explores issues of desegregation in a southern town in the early 1970s through its impact in 2008. My impressions of key events teach lessons about racism and prejudice behavior. Later, spending four years as a public school teacher, I stopped unfairness whenever possible. The book shows real lessons done within the classroom's walls that prevented some of the spread of intolerance on campus and into local neighborhoods. Meanwhile, most of the names have been changed because I just plain forgot these high school peer's real names. Plus, as a storyteller, I wanted to preserve the current students' autonomies or personal lives. Meanwhile, taking my first college class on school dynamics and social behavior, I viewed a film narrated by Bill Cosby. Sitting on a stool in a stark room lacking any character or color; this actor, comedian, and educator explained his situation. It seems there were a bunch of people from every walk of life gathered in his area- AT FIRST. Supposedly, for the sake of argument only, Cosby decided he hated some of the factions based on various things from race to religion to sexual preference to social graces and so on. If he took issue with their heritage, beliefs, culture, and other social behaviors; he asked the person or group to leave the vicinity. The audience laughs while examining their own prejudices.