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while talking about school during this school unit, i have thought about thing that i never did before. I never thought i would have to talk about school, because it was something that i just had to do and have been doing for so long. As well as something i hated. I'm not going to say by doing this unit i hate school any less, because it still wakes me up out of bed every morning, I still have to sit in long class that i don't think will help me after i'm done with high school, it still seem at times like a big wast of time but i have to say it was pretty cool to be able to talk, gain better understanting, and here what other peolpe around me thought about school. At first i thought it was crazy that we was doing a unit on school but now i kind of happy we did because this was one of the only times that we learned about soming that we have do every day, so we weren't learning aout someone else exprience, we were learning about our own and it was something we all can relate to being that we all go to school together . Although we all relate to schoool in the same way there are thing that make our school exprience different . The big thing thats makes my school exprience different form most of my classmates is that i'm black so in this paper I to talk about equal rights for black in the past and now.

In the past black and white could not be in the same school, just like they couldn't do a lot of other things together. Blacks were giving very little rights and were kept as far as the could be kept from the white students. They were also given used books and every thing else they need for school. Everything was giving to the white students first. They were tought with there being many grads of students stuck in one room to learn . They question i have is how can some a 9th grad learn everything she need to learn when learn in the same room as an 3rd grader? The answer is that it can not happen, thats why black were unable to learn the best they can and get equal learing exprieance as a white kid . Blacks were held back . I learned deeply about this by reading a book called freedom children, this book wasn't only about blacks not having equal rights in school it was about blacks not have equal rights at all . There was stories from people who grow up during this time,and in some of the stories they talked about what they went through in school . From the being blacks were looked down on as less then or dumb to white people and that held them back.

I feel that blacks are still looked down on and held back when it comes to most things in life. A lot of balck men make it out of high school so they can better them self with an great futuer. They trun to the streets and make fast money becuase they can go to there mom and ask for a new paire of air maxs ever time the come. I also think its because our socity puts it in there head that they well not become successful. Blacks don't seem to try as hard as other people and that is what every is use to.