One of the first things we learn as children is to discern when something doesn’t fit with the image. I remember the several games and exercises where there would be a group of oranges and a single apple and I would be asked what doesn’t belong in the picture. And I would say the apple because it was the only fruit that wasn’t an orange in the picture. Today if I noticed an apple in an orange basket it would be strange and may or may not bother me. This occurrence is happening on a far larger scale and with more serious consequences. The article Just Walk On By: Black Men and Public Spaces shows that disastrous effects of noticing what doesn’t “fit” in the picture and society’s response to it. Brent Staples being an African American in a dominantly
