How is discrimination shown in roll of thunder hear my cry ?

The book Roll of Thunder Hear my cry was written by Mildred D Taylor in 1976,the book has shown discrimination when white people are racist to black people by killing them or burning them.The book is about Stacey,Cassie Christopher-John and Little Man, they are four sibling they live with Mama and Big Ma but sometimes papa and uncle Hammer come home for a few days,all of them together make the Logan family.

From the start of the book Mildred D Taylor showed discrimination to black people when white people gave the black people the old books that they didn’t need or want they even put the condition of the book which said very poor,and when it was very poor they gave it to black people.Little man was very upset and angry.This is shown when little man stamped on the books Miss.Crocker whipped Little Man.

Cassie saw the book and when she readed that when the books were too old or not anymore needed they gave it to black children before Miss.Crocker whipped him again Cassie said”See Miz Crocker ,see what says.They give us these ole books when didn’t want’em no more”this shows discrimination because it  white people don’t care about black people education because of their skin colour.

Also black children and white children went to different schools the white children school is called Jefferson Davis County School and had a mini bus that takes them home and have brand new desks and new books, while black children didn’t have a mini bus or new desks not either new books they only had old books old desks they went to Great Faith Elementary School but don’t have their own bus this shows racism because white people don’t want white children to mix up with black people.

Also in the book it says that the school driver for the white school bus splashed them to distract the white children,because they were bored and Little man was very angry with this thing of the bus splashing them and white people kept doing it everyday.Until one day they were so annoyed about it,that had revenge on the white school bus,by digging a hole and making the bus get stuck so white children had to walk home for a week until the bus was fixed.

The second point I want to talk about is when Mr.Barnett let’s white people push in front of Cassie,Stacey and TJ and Cassie gets angry with Mr.Barnett and tells him why did he let the other white people push in front and Mr.Barnett whispered “just wait a little bit more”.

Cassie got mad because she was trying to be as kind as she could be to Mr.Barnett and Mr.Barnett answered annoyed she kept telling Mr.Barnett until Mr.Barnett said “who’s little nigga is this!”,Cassie got mad because she got verbally abused by Mr.Barnett.

And when she came out of Mr.Barnett store she was mad afterwards Lilian Jeans pushes Cassie and Cassie gets mad at her,Cassie gets even more mad.And so Lilian Jeans told Cassie to say sorry and Cassie refuses to say sorry to Lilian Jeans but big Ma makes Cassie say sorry to Lilian Jeans because they might get in trouble and she starts crying because she knows it wasn’t her fault and thinks it is not fair to apologise to Lilian Jeans but has to says sorry. And then Mr.Simms tells her to go down the street to the road and she has it.

Mildred D Taylor shows us discrimination again in racism to black people when TJ and Stacey don’t get serve in the Wallace Store because they are black and they are white and just ignore them cause of their skin colour. Discrimination is shown as well when the Berries get burned by white people and kill them, and every night a group of white people go out and kill any black person even if it is a child they go every night.

All of this shows discrimination against black people which is racist to them and I think they should show respect like Jeremy does and not insult them or be rude with them only because of the way they are after all it is not their fault because they were born like that and they can not change that. And should be treated like the white people are treated so there is peace and can move on with out any more problems in the way.