Native Son Thesis

he kills Mary Dalton, who is white and Bessie, who is black. Due to Bigger being black and killing someone that is white and black, they only really care about him killing Mary, more than Bessie. The text states, “White people never searched for Negroes who have killed other Negroes...white people felt it was good when a Negro killed another” (Wright 331). This quote gives off the impression that they do not truly care about black people's lives and could careless if you killed someone of your same color. They only made crimes a big deal for blacks when you hurt, killed or trespassed someone who was white. When Bigger killed Mary in Native Son, the text stated, “she was dead; she was white; she was a women; he had killed her; he was black; …show more content…
A few years ago, a US Army 1st Class Sergeant, Rossano Gerald and his twelve year old son, Gregory found that they could not travel for more than thirty minutes without being stopped twice. When they got stopped their second time Rossano’s son was terrorized by a police dog and both him and his father were placed in a non air conditioned police car. The officers shut the cameras off, blasted the heat in their face, and threatened them with a dog again. Racial profiling does not just occur with minorities; it occurs with people of all ages. Believe it or not, racial profiling can occur with older people like your parents or grandparents. A prime example of this occurred in Greensboro with two older black men, Mr. Phillips and Mr.Spears, who had a white police officer pull beside and look at them then eased back behind them and flashed his lights. The officer claimed that they cut him off and had been drinking. Mr. Spears insisted that the officer should give him a drug test and the officer refused to give him one. Instead the officer told him to get out of the car and Mr.Spears said, “No” and got threatened with