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Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin In the book Black like me John Howard Griffin points out that the Negro doesn't understand the white any more than the white understands the Negro. Specific examples of the book show that both colors were racist to each other. The whites are especially racist with the blacks as seen while Griffin was hitchhiking through Mississippi. The whites were all keens on inquiring about his sex life, which …

…the town of Montgomery he asks himself: "Was it worth going on? Was it worth trying to show the one race what went on behind the mask of the other?" This means that both races were uncooperative no matter how much the whites assured they gave the blacks "equal rights" and how much the blacks said they were attempting to not worsen their reputation that was already so horrible in the eyes of the whites.