Character Analysis Essay On John Deere

Laymon start his story when he is seventeen, five years younger than Rekia Boyd will be when she is shot in the head by an office duty officers in Chicago. Laymon and his friends Troy, Cleta, and Leighton grab some food from a McDonald’s on I-55. Over, there he holds the door open for a man he dubs John Deere, from the green John Deere hat he is wearing. Later the when they are on route I-55 John Deere drives up and yells “Nigger lovers!”, of course like anyone who has just been insulted from a man that they just helped the group of teenagers pull up next to John Deere and begins insulting him. John Deere, pulls out his sirens revealing that he is an under-cover cop. When the groups manage to get to Troy’s apartment complex the police officer are right behind them. John Deere tells Laymon to get out of the car, Kiese Laymon writes that the cop said “” Only you,” he says to me “You are going to jail tonight”” (paragraph 11). A couple of minutes later a white cop appears and tell the group that John Deere has been drinking too much.
This is wrong on many levels, first the group where doing nothing to have a racist phase called out at them. Second John Deere is a cop a person of the law, and justice he supposed to make people feel safe. Instead he goes after a group of teenagers, for little to no reason other than the fact they insulted him for
A few weeks go by and George Harman, the president of the college, meets up with the two fraternity members, Laymon, and his girlfriend and tell them they will be on disciplinary probation for using “racially insensitive language.” And the two fraternities involved get their party privileges taken away for the semester. Kiese Laymon writes “If there was racially insensitive language Shoda and I could have used to make those boys feel we felt, we would have never stepped to them in the first place”