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Travel With My Ex Susan Straight Analysis
In Susan Straight's essay, Travel with My Ex, she discusses about the experience of racism that her family have had. The author is a white women, who had married to a black man . They have three successful daughters and they are known as The Scholar, The Baller, and The Baby. It was the Scholar's eighteenth birthday and they were all heading down to Southern California to Huntington Beach for celebration. The Scholar was driving and all of a sudden, a officer pulled her over when she didn't do anything illegal. This recalled the mother's memory about something happened in the seventies---A officer thought her husband fitted the descriptions of a crime because he was a six feet four tall black guy and he was wearing a hat. The officer
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