Breaking Down Racial Barriers Barriers between races exist everywhere in our daily lives. They are shown in stereotypes, how we live, and how people are treated. For a society that seems to think of itself as so far advance we definitely are not doing a very good job of working out its’ racial issues. One man took this issue into his own hands. He developed a project to show all of us just how stupid we act. John Howard Griffin colored his skin black, using a mixture of chemicals and drugs, to explore the life of a black man. He wanted to experience first hand the racism and injustice. He kept a journal of his experiences, and later published them. I found t