What a Riot!

I can only write about what I know and I can't help but wonder what would happen if Mady came to my high school with this assignment. I grew up in a small town outside Boston where race and class were never an issue. I guess from the outside looking in we were "an uppity class". Although we were all different races we were mostly all the same class. We didn't have the "poor kids" and the "rich kids" and the crime rate was little to none. If we had had this assignment I guarantee we wouldn't have chosen something of such substance or important in issues. Those kids chose Rodney King because "most of them were born in Los Angeles the year in which Rodney King was in the news" and they chose Claudette Colvin because she was someone whom they identified with and was "the same age of many of the performers". Knowing my high school we would've chosen Deborah Samson and Paul Cellucci. Is it weird that I feel un cultured? It's always the kids who have "had it harder" that seem more interesting.