Bad Boy : A memoir is by Walter Dean Myers and is about Racism, Value of education and coming of age. Walter comes to an age to see that racism is all over Harlem. As Walter gets older he sees that education won’t help him as much as he wanted it to. Walter’s life is easier when momma is home but, he always finds trouble.
Walter comes to see that Harlem is full of racism. “I wasn’t aware of a racism problem other than what I heard from other blacks.”Page {36}. Walter saw that Harlem was this wonderful place to live and thought everything was perfect and loved everything about it. He thought that blacks had the same chances as the whites did. As he got older he saw that the cabs didn’t stop or the blacks. Walter saw that wherever he
