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I love it! although one of my friends couldnt explain it with out saying ' racist'


i don't think that's really racist just because that's actually how some towns were. The author was just being realistic. And while I don't agree with the whole idea, we have to accept that it actually happens.

This book isn't for everybody. You can have your own opinion on a book if you want this is a free country.

i love the part when maniac told grayson that black people eat what white people eat he was sooo surprised

Then I got older, got a goodreads account, and clicked on the summary.
What? That was a timeless award-winning children's story packed with crucial lessons and themes?
And there I was thinking it was about a kid who was allergic to pizza.
I think that's the beauty of childhood books. You can love them on a simple, earnest level without analyzing the fun out of them. I'll always admire this book. Six years later and I can still remember the characters, events, setting, and a few quotes.





Exactly! That is what I was talking about. I can't remember the exact quote either.

"Maniac kept trying, but he still couldn't see it, this color business. He didn't figure he was white any more than the East Enders were black, He looked himself over pretty hard and came up with at least seven different shades and colors on his own skin, not one of them being what he would call white (except for his eyeballs, which weren't any whiter than the eyeballs of the kids in the East End.)
Which was all a big relief to Maniac, finding out he wasn't really white, because the way he figured, white was about the most boring color of all." (chapter 16)


This book isnt racist, what the author is strying to show is that cities were like this back then. Let me remind you that Maniac Magee is a legend and legend arent created from one day to another. This story takes you way back to the early 1900's. In fact this book really teaches you not to be racist because he has a connection with people from diffrent ethnicities.

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