As a child one does not completely understand the controversy of race and racism. As a person grows older their views are molded by the experiences that they go through and the environment they are in. In “On Being the Target of Discrimination” Ralph Ellison shares his experiences with discrimination as a child and how his experiences impacted him. The problem that Ellison faced in this passage is segregation and how played a large part in his life as a child. Through Ellison’s confession we are able to use his experiences and see exactly how discrimination impacts a young and impressionable child while also relating it back to the current year of 2017 on the University of North Texas campus. Ellison arranges his paper in chronological
