Response to "Brownies"

I really liked this story, because Laurel, or Snot, was such a mature character for her age. While she was only in the fourth grade Laurel could see the injustice and racism that occurred all around her; not just racism towards herself, either: she witnessed her own father being racist towards a group of Mennonites. It appears that the troop view whites as these creatures that exist in a world separate from their own. It never crossed their minds that the girls from Troop 909 might have disabilities, and even when they learned they were disabled, it didn't stop them from mocking them on the bus ride home. Obviously Arnetta had never heard anyone from Troop 909 call any of the girls in her troop a "nigger." Arnetta was an instigator, and people like her really get on my nerves, regardless of their race.  The line where Laurel narrates, "We had all been taught that adulthood was full of sorrow and pain, taxes and bills, dreaded work and dealings with whites, sickness and death" really stuck out to me, because it was shocking that white people was grouped in with horrible things such as sickness and death. As a white person, I don't find myself someone that black people have to deal with, and it's sad to me if black people actually feel that way. For the author to mention it, it their must be some truth to it.