Response

The book "response" by Paul Valponi is about a boy that lives in a neighborhood that is racist towards black people. One part of the neiborhood is mostly black, and the other part is Italian. The Italian man do not like black people whatsoever. The neiborhood is separated because when they both come together something bad happens to either a black man or woman or a Italian man or woman. One way this book shows me it is racist towards black people and was written in the segergation era is when the three Italian men beat on the black man for being on the wrong side of the neighborhood. They beat on the black man so bad they hit him with a bat say very racial remarks about black people and then also rob the black man for his chain while he is on the ground. Another way the book shows it is racist towards black people is when the black kid and his two friends go inside the pizzeria there are two Italian men siting down and they look at the black people like they are no good, and they probably don't even deserve to sit down and eat pizza in that pizzeria. Even the thought of beating them up came across there mind but they didn't because they would have violated the store and there were police outside. Those two pieces of evidenced show me that this book is racist towards black people. In my opioion I feel racism shouldn't happen. People have different skin color than another group of people but that doesn't make them any better or worst than another group of people, then beating someone down because they are a certain race and they in your neiborhood it isn't worth it because, not only that person gets beat down and they feel bad, he or she has to go back to his family and I'm sure any family member wouldn't want nothing to happen to another one over racial hate. Overall some people might have a different history than another and the skin color might be different but that doesn't give anyone the right to hate one and other because of skin color. We are all the same in a way, everyone should be treated that way.