Non-Fiction Critical Analysis

    In the article, "Post-Racial Teens Struggle with a World that isn't" by Greg Toppo describes society as "racially diverse" along with details illustrating how people of color, and races such as Chinese, Hispanic, etc. are being discriminated without much thought. Mr.Toppo pays close attention to      African Americans who have been discriminated for their entire lives and express on what they want to say and how they feel about being treated unfairly. He gathers information from past surveys Laing with quoting African Americans that have either been discriminated or been witnessing discrimination. Mr.Toppo then also quotes several white American people who attempt to make racism less of a situation. Mr.Toppo mostly focuses on what African Americans want, and how they think and feel, Mr.Toppo  may be trying to lead readers to be thinking more about racism and what African Americans have to go through everyday.
      One of the ways Mr.Toppo wants readers to think more about the way Africa Americans are being treated is by giving statistics on from past surveys from racially situations. First, he quotes a survey  of a debate on interracially marriages. It comes to a conclusion that "5% say interracial marriages are 'bad thing for society'...And 93% say it's OK for African American and white people to interracially date." What stands out within this quote is "OK", this shows that Mr.Toppo is more on the African American side of this particular survey/debate because of the way he quoted that it is "OK" for interracial dating/marriages. As mentioned before, Mr.Toppo quotes African Americans who have been discriminated before. Many of them say things such as, "I do wonder if the skin color that I am is going to determine my future and what I'm doing to do" along with saying things that people don't pay attention to racism in depth, rather than just ignore it. Thus, Mr.Toppo wants the world to know that this is a big issue that needs to be observed more because it isn't fair to treat somebody unfairly only because of their skin color.
       In my opinion, I feel that racism will always be an issue no matter how much people want to stop it by making organizations to lessen the issue. Racism is a part of history that is always going to be repeated and it frustrates me that people think that they are more superior than others just because of their skin color. We are all human, what difference is their just because of skin color, and that is what I feel about racism. A misleading course of action that was  caused by white Americans to think that they are above all people of color for what reason, none.