Racial Profiling In Korama's Essay Break Skin, Break Spirit

We were raised to believe that people only want to succeed or want to fail; that this a black or white issue, and that there is no gray area. We want to think that there are only two types of people; the ones that succeed and the ones that do not succeed. People are not raised to believe that some people have more opportunities that open doorways to success that other people do not get. We want to believe that “if you wanted to succeed in this country, be you black or be you white, all you needed was desire, and opportunity” (Danquah, 229). Even though there are the ones that succeed, there are similarly two types of people that do not succeed. There are the ones that truly do not want to succeed at all and the ones that did not get the chance. Even though we want to ignore it, the truth is the people who do not succeed, have experienced racial profiling in their lives more than one time. They go …show more content…
Danquah’s experiences specifically showed examples of what is racial profiling towards African Americans. While, Korama’s experiences showed us the impact of racial profiling and stereotypes, and how they can lead to a negative outcome. With Korama’s life story, it shows people that if they separate themselves from this stigma of being different based on ethnicity alone, that people are able to succeed. This road, of becoming higher than what society’s norm is, can be a lonely battle and sometimes seem too overwhelming to overcome, but if we, as a joint society, learn to accept eachother we can change the social