Racial Discrimination In Staples Just Walk On By

Staples has many accurate statements in his story “Just Walk On By” that talks mainly about race or the color of one’s skin. He speaks about “current controversies surrounding racial profiling of criminals suspects” (Staples. 196). This means many people are investigated, they would stand for the color of their skin, ethnicity, and national origin. I have been put under the profiling category because of the color of my skin. Although people with black skin have a higher chance of getting profiled, I myself am a young man with brown skin, with a Hispanic appearance that is fairly profiled. Racial discrimination has proven itself to being a major con I human society. Statistics show most races that aren’t white or Caucasian are less in poverty than someone of another races. Which will lead to economic discrimination that will lead the other races to do criminal acts and end up being stereotyped and profiled a lot quicker than a Caucasian. From all three classes, lower class, middle class, and upper class, Caucasians are in least poverty.
He has tried such as whistling Beethoven so he is profiled as intimidating. I’ve had times when I had to speak perfect and etiquette English so I wouldn’t be profiled as an illiterate alien, that Hispanics are considered as. Another example of a racial discrimination in Staple’s story, “I could cross in front of a car stopped at a traffic light and elicit the thunk, thunk, thunk, thunk of the driver – black, white, male, or female – hammering down the door locks”(Staples. 197). This a big slap to the face pretty much, because the fact the color of his skin isn’t welcoming, he is being categorized as a black man that is known for robbery and