By: Lawrence Otis Graham

Lawrence Otis Graham is an African American lawyer in New York City who wrote, "The Black Table is Still There" for the New York Times magazine. His story is about his experience in Jr. High school as a black man, and then returning there after 14 years. The story is for readers to understand that segregation is wrong and his Jr. High school has made little progress against it.

In Jr. High Lawrence thought by sitting at the all black table would be making an anti-white statement, and he would loose all of his white friends. He didn't want to separate into a group; he believed people who separated themselves from others are the cause of people not communicating well with different religion or racial groups. All throughout Jr. High he felt that people shouldn't separate themselves because it's...