BLACK LIKE ME I just finished reading the book Black Like Me by John Griffin. The book is about John Griffin and his quest to show that the color of your skin matters. John is journalist from Texas and under goes treatment to temporarily dye his skin black. This is so he knows how it is to be a black man and what they go though. This book was written in the late fifties to …showed first 75 words of 695 total…

…showed last 75 words of 695 total…on his way. He made the comment that he does not know one white man that would take a stranger into his home and treat him the way he was treated. After John made the change back into a white man and the article was published the white people where out raged, his family got threatening phone calls and he had to go under protective custody. But John says is was more then worth it.