On September 11th we had to read a few pages from bell hooks - Remember Raptured. As we were discussing the story and talking about how the authors story wasn't published by a company because she was black. Then someone asked when was this story published. I was shocked when we found out that the book was published in 1999. I was so upset to see racism up front like that in our day and age. When I read the chapter I thought that it was published in the early to mid 1900s. Even today there is still racism out there and thats a major problem. There are still those crazy people out there that are racist. However this form of racism happening so close to my life time just blew my mind because i would never think something like that would ever happen in my life time. Racism is a horrible thing and it must be stopped completely.