Welll... right now I am reading Kira-Kira.  I HATE it! It is probably one of the worst books I have ever read so far! However, I had only red a few chapters and the most exciting thing that has happened is that they go to a motel. As I am ripping my hair out reading this book I have got to put myself in Katie's situation: It has got to be pretty grueling to go from Iowa, a place she loves and has alot of Japaneese people from her culture. Then, she has to move to the South, in her case this is a very cold, cruel, place that judges her by her skin and how she looks. This got me thinking, does this happen in our area? Not today... right?
 Okay, granted this was used before The Civil Rights Movement... but Katie in her family is in America during World War One, this must be about the degree of racism that Katie and her family have dealt with because of the war with the Japaneese.  





Okay, this makes me sick. Enough said. This is a perfect example of racism today. You would think that in a "civilized" society America would be past this! This is a perfect example of how a society can think about another race...just because of a war we are having with people that have the same skin color. This shows me that this is the kind of terrible things that Katie and her family have been going through. Like a good friend of mine said we are all minorities somewhere else. Well said!

                                  xxxKatherinexxx