Black vs. White

The week we read chapter 3,4,5 in the book The Secret of Bees. In these chapters Lilly finally gets to work with August in the beehive August shares some stories about the families past time. August explains how May had a twin named April.April shot her self. When she was 11 she wanted to get an ice cream cone and when she did the man told her she couldn’t eat it inside. This made her upset. She then went in to a deep depression and shot herself because of all the segregation that was going on around her.

When this happened May was torn by this news and she now cries every time she hears a bad story about someone getting hurt. August and June wanted to help her out so they made a wall that she can go to and pray for the souls that are lost.

            When June finds out that Lilly is lying and tells August that they shouldn’t trust her because she is white. Lilly is distraught she thought that only black people get prejudice comments. From this passage I can concur that black people also felt a racist vibe toward white people. To them white people are mean, its stereotypical because not every white person hated blacks. Back then it was blacks vs. white both trying to get their say on something or how they should be treated. It was only in 1960 when they gave black youth a place in the movement racial organized led by Stakly Carmichael “ Black Power”. There were many of movements and organizations going on at this time. Some of the groups were bad ones that had to deal with more aggressive ways to get their point across leading to the idea that all white people are distrustful. In times today there are still segregation issues, for example even places as small as high schools have cliques that form based on color.