Race
After reading three different articles, it was proven that race is still a major issue in the United States today. These articles include, Ginger Thompson's (2000), "Reaping What Was Sown on the Old Plantation," about an old slave plantation that was sold of into a National Park. "At the Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die," by Charlie LeDuff (2000) talks about the racial segregation and discrimination found in a small town in North Carolina. The last article is about the racial segregation and separation found in a school, entitled, "Growing Up, Growing Apart," by Tamar Lewin (2000). All these articles are tied together by some race issue that is still present in our country. In a small town called Natchitaoces, Louisiana a woman by the name decided to sell her, slave owning famili
They describe what they see in their school as far as separation goes between the blacks and whites. She began teaching tourists of the real happenings of the past and began making examples that would put the tourists' in the shoes of a black slave on the Magnolia Plantation. In, "At a Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die" LeDuff (2000) tells the story about how racially segregated it is at a pork plant. Lewin (2000) explains how these girls remember a time when "the playground was a picture postcard of racial harmony" (Lewin 2000:3), and now it is turned into a black and white separation. Tar Heel, North Carolina, where the pork plant is located, is a town with a well made up racial mix of "40 percent Lumbee Indian, 35 percent white, and 25 percent black" (LeDuff 2000), but still holds too much racial tension. Skit's and plays were performed to reenact the past. LeDuff explains how whites tend to have the cleanest and easiest jobs such as mechanics or supervisors, while Indians usually are doing warehouse work, which leaves blacks and Mexicans doing the dirtiest jobs at the factory (2000). es, land and make it into a national park (Thompson 20000). Lewin (2000) mainly describes that no matter if it is purpose or not, the black kids at this high school tend to stay with the black kids and the white kids tend to hang around with the white kids. "Growing Up, and Growing Apart," by Tamar Lewin describes the "extraordinarily mixed South Orange-Maplewood [school] district" (Lewin 2000: 1). The article goes to show how jobs are still divided from best to worst among race and ethnicity, instead of from skill level.
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