- Obama’s mental note of the “ledger of slights” he experiences daily (80-81)
In pages 80-81, Obama goes into his experience with racism as a young black male. Although it is something him and his friends would joke about, “That’s just …
Category: Unit 1
reading response Obama-jennifer
Party at Ray’s
In this scene, Obama is at a high school party. He did not like Kurt because he thought he was making fun of him and his friends. Ray tries to tell him that he’s overthinking and that …
Reading Response Obama- Maryfer
The night of toot’s and Stanley’s argument, Obama drove to one of his grandfather’s friends house and there, told him about the argument his grandparents had had. They sat at Frank’s porch and drank whisky while Frank told Obama that …
Reading Response Obama — Kendra Larosiliere
“The older woman in my grandparents’ apartment building who became agitated when I got on the elevator behind her and ran out to tell the manager that I was following her; her refusal to apologize when she was told that …
Reading Response Obama — Migdalia Rivera
On page 90 of chapter 4 Frank has a talk with Obama about his grandfather Stan. Frank was like Obama’s mentor that hung out with Stan .His grandparents were also white . He mentions and points out a few things …
Reading response Obama- Julian F. Georgi
“I’m saying yeah, I might not get the breaks on the team that some guys get, but they play like white boys do, and that’s the style the coach likes to play, and they’re winning the way they play. I …
Introduction- Maryfer
Hi, I’m Maryfer Mariano and I’m 19 years old. I was born in the Dominican Republic and moved to the US when I was 9 years old along with my mom and dad and my younger sister who in fact …
Writing Task resilience- Maryfer
Being part of the highschool graduating class of 2020, I as well as many other students struggled with the whole switch from in person classes to all online courses. Freshman year of college is in my opinion the best year …
Reading Response Obama- Laurencia Colon
Barack Obama waking up and hearing Gramps ( Grandfather) and Toot (Grandmother) arguing. Toot wants Gramps to drive him to work that morning because she was bothered by a “Black fella”. Obama was disturbed by such attitude but tries to understand Toot …
Reading Response Obama-Alexander David
Chp 4 page 82 P1,”We were in goddamn Hawaii. We said what we pleased. ate where we pleased; we sat at the front of the proverbial bus. None of our white friends, guys like Jeff or Scott from the basketball …
