babies are crying.. my computer is dying.

(fyi) This is going to be a pretty short prompt because I have 13% battery and no charger... So my apologies for the not so in depth-ness of my post. Anywho, Tim Wise's White Like Me, offers a very different perspective from Taylor's. He involves much more of his personal history, which in this case, I think is the more appropriate rout. It allows the targeted reader to find grounds of relation--which statistics cannot do. The old saying is right, there is a difference between showing and telling. To tell allows the other person to block off or choose what they here. But to show does not allow the other to make any excuses for misunderstanding. It also some how forces the viewer to look back the same way he is critically looking back at his lineage. I thought it was pretty interesting how one side of the family has been rooted in America since what seemed like forever. And contrastingly his other side with Jewish heritage provides a different perspective on the white foundation of America's whiteness. I think that allows this reading to lend itself to a greater audience, whom otherwise would have discredited his point of view in relation to their own groundings in America. I'm really interested to go, not just further with the reading but to see how our class discussions move in conjunction with it. So far this first chapter (still working on the second, but wanted to get the blog in before my computer goes night night) has really set a tone that seemingly will be beneficial overall. As a side note, I do enjoy his writing as well. It's almost novel-like. Taylor was interesting because the philosophical and statistical information he presented, while Wise says things in an interesting way... with interesting stories of information. Definitely a switch up. Next week's blog won't be cut short by my computers impending death.