Reading this essay was just grand. I could enjoy it a little more by eating candy like you said and reading it at the same time. I really liked how she talked abo0ut all of the different systems of class. All the different positions of the family is great. With things like the Moynihan report sometimes our views of society can be a little different than what they really are. Like this report it shows how things can be like a little misunderstood. People seem to always assume that certain people in groups automatically assume that role. It speaks of the roles of African American families and shows what they are, when in reality a lot of them are not like that at all. In our nuclear families it seems as if people always assume that mother's are supposed to work in the home and take care of everything while the father's are supposed to work and earn and make money to support the family. We need to realize that people are different than how they appear we should not judge off of stereotypes or things that we have seen once and automatically assume that is the truth of it all. People are all different. In this essay it speaks of stratification and the different class systems. People in upper class seem to control a lot of the everyday society and want people families to stay in their class. Middle class is where most of America lies and we work to go up to the higher class. Lower class is the poor who try to work to get up by whatever they can do. With the black civil rights movement it gave a lot of change it gave people equal rights and has changed how our society views their culture as a whole. This essay was a bit challenging but it was interesting.