In the book, Black Like Me Griffin has the experience of being a black man for a six-week period. While he is black he experiences many situations of discrimination. Some of these times are worse than others throughout the book. For example, when he first starts this experiment he is walking on a sidewalk at night and then this kid calls “Hey Mr. No-Hair” (Griffin 34). Even though he does learn about many aspects of the life he doesn’t get to know what it is like to be in jail or not have a job since he is only doing it for six-weeks. There are a couple of things that he doesn’t get to learn about like not having a house or a job. Therefore, he can’t ever truly say he knows what the blacks are going through since, he never experienced to the full extent. The first aspect that he doesn’t get to experience fully is not having a house or living in a dumpy house. In his journal entries, he always had a place to go because he knew some people that he could call. One time he called P.D. East because he felt that he was not safe out there alone without shelter and protection from rabbles outside (Griffin 71). If he grew up as a Negro, he would not have any contacts to call when he needed a house because in reality he would just be another Negro looking for a place to stay. He would have to get a hotel if there was no other place to…show more content… He usually relied on having someone to call to go stay the night or when he was in trouble. He also never got a job while he was a Negro but he didn’t really need the money because he wasn’t truly a Negro and didn’t have to pay for bills. Lastly, he didn’t ever get badly discriminated against like other blacks did but, he might have been if he was a Negro his whole life. Therefore, he never can fully know what the blacks are going though since he was only black for
