FNED 246 White

 The author starts the reading by setting the scene of where they grew up. using this time to show the reader what it was like. One of the first things that They pointed out was the elementary school where students who couldn't afford lunch didn't "qualify" for lunch. To really drive home the point about the scene the author points out fights in streets and the drug addicts that he sees everywhere. As You read through you maybe begin to believe that children will follow the sad area in become hopeless. From what I could tell that did not happen the children that were wrote about seemed very mature about their problems.

 I found the reading by Alan Johnson to be interesting insightful and important to the future. In the beginning of the reading Johnson says "In some way this book cannot help having a white, straight, middle class point of view.  I thought it was interesting to start the book out this way almost as a way of saying that it might have some of the basis that he will later talk about in the rest of reading the writer also addresses that he could use this as bridge to reach people like him who might have a wall up about these things  "People can't help fearing the unfamiliar-including other races" the author is using an example of the idea "Human nature" and uses it in away to disprove this idea he later states that you would not only have to ignore most of human history but also many of disciplines including psychology and many other to make this argument that racism is just human nature to make sense  "the bottom line is trouble we cant talk about it trou