White Person Who Wants To Know How To Be My Friend By Pat Parker

For the week of November 27th, the reading that I had the greatest reaction to was the piece “For the White Person Who Wants to Know How to Be My Friend” by Pat Parker. I liked this piece because it draws necessary attention to some of the many things that white people say to blacks that they may not realize are not appropriate. It points out some of the stereotypes that blacks put up with daily but never really address them to their friends. It made me realize just how much blacks are stereotyped, even by their friends, which is really sad to me. I wish that whites didn’t need to say and do these things to make blacks seem like they aren’t like whites. They are still humans too and deserve to be treated just the same as whites. The things
Why does the sentence have to followed by a comment that addresses the color of her skin? To whites, they probably don’t see anything wrong with this comment, but in reality, what they are saying can be extremely harmful to a black woman’s confidence. This article should be circulated more so that way white people can start treating their black friends better, because they likely don’t even know that what they say is hurtful. This week at my site, I played outside with some of the kids. We played with stilts and a long jump rope. It was a lot of fun and beneficial that there are extra volunteers there in Tuesdays so that multiple kids can be outside. One of the kids really caught on to the stilts which was super cool. I tried it but couldn’t get more than a couple steps without falling off. I noticed that some of the boys would pout when they didn’t get their way or couldn’t get the hang of the activities. They would be done pouting within a few minutes because they would want to be back in the action with the other kids. This week provided me with a different experience than I have gotten in the past from Packer. It was super cool to see the kids outside playing instead of sitting on the computers the whole