A Slow Walk of Trees

The comparison-contrast essay by toni Morrison discusses the views by her grandparents vs the views of her parents on the treatment of blacks in America. The thing that interested me was that the men viewed everything negatively but the women were cautiously optimistic. This may be because black men face very different obstacles than the black women face. The author was raised in a racist home and has tried to overcome her own racism throughout the years which she primarily drew from the black women in her family. She used statistics of black achievements to help point out the improvements that the blacks have made in society. This was a very interesting essay, but sad in that we are still having these discussions.