In the nonfiction text, Outcasts United, Warren St. John suggests that people are still racist to the influx of refugees. Nathaniel Nyok was rejected to play on the field because the mayor says that he doesn't want those big guys to play on the field because he thinks they will ruin the field. Nyok wants to play soccer on Armistead Field, but the police keep chasing him away. The mayor of Clarkston, Mayor Swayney, claims he does not want soccer played there.As Mayor Swayney says, “There will be nothing but baseball down there as long as I am mayor… just as prominently, a patchwork orb of geometric shapes clearly recognizable as a soccer ball”(91). St. John emphasizes that Mayor Swayney, who prohibited Nathaniel and his friends to play
