Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County

After reading the first three chapters, and even as quickly as after reading the first few pages, I was filled with sympathy towards the racism going on going on during this time, and, simultaneously, anger. It was difficult to read Robert E. Taylor's comments about black people and how he showed no regret nor remorse towards them or the condition in which they were learning. I couldn't get it past my head, how someone could be filled with so much hate, carelessness, and ignorance. I, like author Kristen Green, was disgusted. It shocked me how racism was still very much alive throughout these small towns in the south. I think for Green it was eye opening when she got to see a mix family in a town where no such thing exsisted. I couldn't stop thinking of the line where she says, "I didn't know any of that. Nor did I know that I had just glimpsed my future" (Green 28). I think it's very telling of the times she was living in and how one day, it would come to affect her future family.