why are the blaxck kids sitting together

The reading was pretty interesting and i have noticed that as a student at Penn State. Alot of the students tend to socialize with other students of the same race and, going to a high school where the student body came from more than 60 countries but we all got along and we looked beyond our differences, i found it ironic that poeple isolate themselves based on race at a college level. the reading talked about alot of things and i didnt know if it had to do with race or stereotypes about black people, like the fact that David would be followed around the mall by a security guard, or the fact that women would hold their purses tighter becuase he was black or six feet.
i disagree with the comment that the psychologist William Cross made, where the black child values the dominant white culture, because i have never met a black person that wishes they were white, i am not sure what time he is talking about, but i according to my knowledge, i would argue that he talking about the racial period and my reason being is that maybe they had been treated that they thought that if they were white, they wouldnt be treated they way they were.but still i dont believe that there was a time that black people valued white people as the dominant race, althought thats what the racial period potrayed them to be.

Chapter

I have to say that i thought that the reading was really interesting, and i enjoyed, it basically talked about stereotypes. and how we use them today. stereotypes are very common in today's society, knowing that in America there are a lot of different races and groups, people create these stereotypes that tend to be very offensive to other races. In high school i took a class, and we talked social issues in society, and one of our assignements was to write stereotypes that we had heard about different races, and when i read this chapter i was reminded of the horrible, false things that my fellow classmates had wrote about other races, and how some students thought that they were true. one interesting one was that, "all Africans stink" and i found it to be very offensive. I thought it was most horrible thing that anyone could say about a group of people. i think that stereotypes are false statements of hate that people say about a certain group of people.