Just Walk on By by Brent Staples
Twenty-two-year-old journalist Brent Staples talks about his experiences while being racially profiled living in Chicago and New York. He shows negative view of being racially profiled in the United States and racism. He is being discriminated against when doing routines like taking walks in his neighborhood and workplace. brent staples understand why women are scared of him. He believes that he can remove that stereotype because he is not dangerous, and not everyone is like that. He is practicing to look less “scary” to individuals that he encounters and prevent behavior by engaging it. Brent talks about how black men feel when they are racially profiled today, and that not all are harmful.
Lone Ranger and Tonto by Sherman Alexie
Indian Native Sherman Alexie wrote about how he was racially-profiled outside of his reservation in Seattle, Washington. He left the reservation to pursue his education at Washington State University, majoring in American studies, where he found his interest in writing. His writings consist of short stories related to his own experiences as a Native American struggling with his own culture. In this story, he writes about him being racially profiled as a robber in a 7-11 store, having a girlfriend he argued with because she is white, encountering a police officer that labeled him as an outsider, and his view as Native Indians while being caught between two cultures. He tried to have his audience understand his perspective in life as a Native American while combining metaphors between two cultures.
