just walk on by
This article surprised me. First of all I never gave this subject a second thought. I grew up in a mostly African American neighborhood where I was the minority. The author does a great job of discribing his feelings about this type of discrimination. It brought to my attention the way I handle myself in similar cercomstances. If faced with a strange black man at night I would probubly use caution; however, I would do the same if I was faced with a white man at night. I was surprised at the amount of pain the author has gone through over the years and even more surprising, these have been within the last decade. When I first started reading this essay I thought it was being written about situations that happened over 30 years age. Writting this article shows great vulnerability on the authors part. I am glad I read this. In the future I will try to be more awear of my reaction in similar circumstances.