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A review by ashleylin1130
If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
4.0
I wish i had read this book 15 years ago in high school.
Growing up my family was poor, but still so surrounded by our white privilege that as a young teen I didnt even conceive that racial injustice was still happening in the united states. Seemed like something only in the history books. Only in the past.
I, unfortunately, did not learn how wrong that was until college. And even then, did not begin to start thinking deeply and critically about it until graduate school. That is a privlege and a luxury so many don't have. So many just like Jeremiah who, at 15, knows exactly why he does not run through white neighborhoods.
I hope this book, after 20 years, and too many true stories just like it, has found itself in the hands of more teens like I had been. 15. White. Privileged. And in need of a wake up call.
Growing up my family was poor, but still so surrounded by our white privilege that as a young teen I didnt even conceive that racial injustice was still happening in the united states. Seemed like something only in the history books. Only in the past.
I, unfortunately, did not learn how wrong that was until college. And even then, did not begin to start thinking deeply and critically about it until graduate school. That is a privlege and a luxury so many don't have. So many just like Jeremiah who, at 15, knows exactly why he does not run through white neighborhoods.
I hope this book, after 20 years, and too many true stories just like it, has found itself in the hands of more teens like I had been. 15. White. Privileged. And in need of a wake up call.