Lori Dinovitz Cassandra Holcumb After reading three different articles, it was proven that race is still a major issue in the United States today. These articles include, Ginger Thompson’s (2000), “Reaping What Was Sown on the Old Plantation,” about an old slave plantation that was sold of into a National Park. “At the Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die,” by Charlie LeDuff (2000) talks about the racial segregation and discrimination found in a small town in North …showed first 75 words of 536 total…

…showed last 75 words of 536 total…time when “the playground was a picture postcard of racial harmony” (Lewin 2000:3), and now it is turned into a black and white separation. Lewin (2000) mainly describes that no matter if it is purpose or not, the black kids at this high school tend to stay with the black kids and the white kids tend to hang around with the white kids. It was peacefully known to these children that acting your race was extremely important