What Colors Our Perspective?
Small Great Things is the latest book from author Jodi Picoult . In her latest book she covers the topic of racism and how it affects different groups of people. I debated with myself on whether I wanted to cover this book on Writer’s Corner. Synopsis: Ruth Jefferson an African American has been a nurse for over twenty years. She has worked in the Labor and Delivery ward in a small hospital in New York. She has one sister Adisa who is lives in the ghetto and gets by on benefits and minimum wage jobs. Her answer to everything is to turn to her prejudices for solutions to her problems. One day while Ruth is at work she is assigned to a couple with a baby. The father asks her to not touch their baby and has her removed from the case. The father Turk is a white supremacist and does not want anything to do with African Americans. When his baby dies he wants to blame someone for his death. So Ruth is promptly arrested and charged with the crime. Is she really guilty? En