Countee Cullen's Incident

In the poem, Incident, written by Countee Cullen, the events described in the poem are the only thing he remembers from the summer because his oppression must have significantly affected his self-image. On stanza 2, he states, “Now I was eight and very small, and he was no whit bigger, and so I smiled, but he poked out his tongue, and called me, ‘Nigger.’” This quote shows how he was treated inferior, and others were racist towards him. This is important to note because the term he was referred to as a child could have made him feel that this word would officially define him.
I experienced a negative incident myself, in which I was oppressed for being Muslim. This took place on the anniversary of September 11th, 2010. I was with my dad on