mrsjroth 's review for:

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

4.0

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I guess it was interesting? It's interesting to see how he was motivated to do this, the go through with it, and experience it but that is what he did. He experienced it. He got a taste of it. He got to live a couple of days in another life, in another man's shoe...but it was never permanent, it was never "forever" and because of that those conditions he discovered could never hurt him as it was only for a small set amount of time and not constantly or consistently thrust upon him day after day, week after week, year after year, generation after generation. He knew that his wife and kids were safe at home, that he would soon be safe at home, that needing to find work, a place of his own, was never really a necessity but a desire to discover and learn.