Once Upon a Time When we Were Colored

Once Upon a Time When we were Colored is a very good book. I will summarize the events in this book in the next few paragraphs. I will explain Uncle Cleve’s personality and the author. I will also explain the prejudice in this book. This book begins as the author begins to explain in the first person about his Uncle Cleve. He describes his personality, an independent man and with a traditional characteristic. He …showed first 75 words of 273 total…

…showed last 75 words of 273 total…the world was prejudice to black people. This book is a very down to earth book about the world, it included no hatred towards either black people nor white people. It showed that a man did not have to be white or black to have been shown respect by his peers. It also shows the pain of a man trying to explain the prejudice of the world to a child that probably won’t understand.