tracting AIDS and dying?Despite all this, these children still have a light in their eyes. One Stuyvesant principle said, "Everything these kids touch turns to gold." Of course this school is said to produce more doctors than any other high school in the United States. What is the symbolism behind that? For the children of Mott Haven, are they truly innocent until proven guilty? The racist ideology doesn't apply to them until someone makes them feel like it does. These children are not deemed inferior. One child stated that he wanted to be an x-ray technician one day. Even though the child said it with a shrug, the thought was still there.The sadness these people experience is just heart wrenching. No one should have to deal with this kind of racism. No one should be forced to the bottom of society and deemed so inferior that they shouldn't even be helped. People shouldn't have to feel like a monster that no one wants to see or speak of. The people of Mott Haven just want help,they want normal lives just like everyone else. Kozol's venture into this "world" was very courageous and forthright. The depiction of these people he showed truly should make NY think of what they are exactly doing to this community and these children.434,000 who live in Washington Heights and Harlem. This area makes up one of the most racially segregated areas of poor people in the United States. In this book we focus on Mott Haven, a place where 48,0000 of the poorest people in the South Bronx live. Two thirds of the people are Hispanic, one-third are black and thirty-five percent are children. There are nearly four thousand heroin users, and one-fourth of the women who are tested are positive for HIV. All of this and more in one little area of the South Bronx. In the middle of all this chaos and confusion are children. Children who have daily drills on what to do if gunshots are heard, children who know someone who has died of AIDS, childr...
