IN_THE_MIDDLE_OF_THE_NIGHT

Sijun Chai

English-122

Prof, Hong

01/23/2013

RR2

Staples starts out by identifying the moment he had detected a dis-confirming response to his impression when a younger lady raced away from him he was walking nonchalantly in back of her nearly a city block out. At this moment, Staples recognizes because of how he is clothed, his tallness, and lengthy hair he looks fearsome to people, peculiarly Caucasian people, he appeared while walking down the streets. Staples passes the connection that in applied mathematics, a bulk of rappers and robbers are African-American and that many ward off coming in interaction with him in neighborhoods for anxiety that Staples has the intent of hurting them in some fashion. Once he was conscious of his conspicuous differentiation from other walkers he understood the language of fear. Staples acknowledges that people were terrified of him, so he set out being observant of distinct behaviors incontestable by people he experienced while traveling on the street. What struck me most about the reading was not thinking before on how big of a problem racial profiling is not only in the United States of America, but all over the globe.  The question I’d most like to ask the author is how do you put aside all your anger, and hurt as easily as you do. Is it truly worth holding that all inside for someone else’s benefit. The idea I most take issue with is if someone see’s something threatening in you, then maybe take a look at myself, and use the feedback, after all to make a better impression. The most crucial point in the reading was actually learning how so many women would respond to a colored man like this, and how I actually would do the same thing. It has nothing to do with my whole view on other people, but rather the intimidation of their presence that is natural. Many things happen in the new’s all the time, to anyone. So just by having that in my sub conscious memory, my first reaction is to get scared of something I know happened to someone else.