Blog Revision

Original Blog Post from : http://thebananacrisis.blogspot.com/2014/11/non-fiction-critical-analysis.html
    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. This means that Mr.Toppo mainly focuses on how people of different races feel about being discriminated a lot but aren't getting help because people are not paying attention to their misery and don't bother to help. He gathers information from past surveys  with quoting people of color 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 people of color want, and how they think and feel, Mr.Toppo  may be trying to lead readers to be thinking more about racism and what people of color have to go through everyday.

     One of the ways Mr.Toppo wants readers to think more about the way people of color are being treated is by giving statistics on from past surveys from racially situations. First, he quotes a survey  of a debate on Interracial  marriages. It concludes 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 people of color who have been discriminated before. Many of them describe the difficulties of living a normal life like rest of the people. A teenage black girl even says, "I do wonder if the skin color that I am is going to determine my future and what I'm doing to do" and stating how she isn't getting help from people around her. Other people of color state how racism is just being ignored because it hasn't stopped even after 200 years and counting. 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. When people do make organizations to prove that all people of color have their own voice and together we can live together, to me it is a massive waste of time and money that is being spent. Racism all started off with white people and white people actually corrupt their own land. The injustice that is being served and not being eliminated is horrible. On the plus side everyone is still technically free and America is progressing very well as a nation.