Social Awareness:Racism

I've just finished reading a shocking article about racism. One part of the article said that the Boston Tea party may have happened partially because of racism. We were never tought things like this in school. I think that a lot of times us kids aren't being tought what's going on in the real world right now.

I don't like that we're not learning what's going on. We're never going to be socially aware unless teachers or someone else tells us what's happening. I think that once people know and understand what's going on, they'll do something about it. Once people understand things, theycan take actions about them and improve the world we live in.

I think that this social awareness project is a good idea. This assignment can teach us a lot.

Entry about The Outsiders

This week I've been reading the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. A repeating pattern that I've noticed is that the greasers(poor kids) and socs(rich kids) are always angry at each other even though they never have a specific reason to have such hatred. They've always just been really angry at each other. This seems kind of like racism to me. I think that the kids in the book all have enough problems without dealing with each other. I thinh that it's dumb to cafe enough about who's rich and who's poor to risk lives.

I wonder what S.E. HInton will do about the greasers and the socs. I think he should make the two groups at least accept each other. I think that one time someone will get hurt badly in the book and then everyone will be guilty and sorry.