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Hi! My name is Alex, and I go to school at John Carroll in Bel Air, Maryland. I’m in 9th grade. The reason this blog is here is so that I can talk about racism. Some of the stuff on the blog includes 5 note cards to talk about some sub categories of racism, a book review of the book Black and White, which I read over the summer and a letter to my pen pal.

The book that I read over the summer, called Black and White by Paul Volponi was all about 2 star basketball players. One was white and the other was black, which is how the book got its title. They are both really good friends. Basically, the main issue in the story was that when senior dues came around, the two main characters, Marcus and Eddie had spent their money on new basketball shoes instead of keeping some aside for senior dues. So they start to look for new ways to make money and Eddie finds a gun in his attic and they use it to pull stickups. They accidentally shoot someone and the rest of the book is how they both go through hard times as they each have to go to court.

The main issue in my book was racism and how it is applied in our society today. I selected it because I have always been interested in our justice system and also racism and I never really understood what racism was. it's a pretty general term but I managed to narrow it down to some smaller sub topics. I gathered information for this topic by using Grolier, infotrac, and some other really good sites that I plan to use throughout the school year for other projects as well.