In Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric, she portrays the prejudice and racism against minorities, especially black, that we face and hear about in our everyday lives. Moreover, she ambiguously leaves the reader to visualize whatever we want by flashing incomplete stories that are without cause and effect. By giving us different instances of prejudice and racism that happen in her life and other black people’s lives, she urges us to take a closer look at our everyday lives to understand racism by having us to fill in cause or effect by our own using personal experience or past/current issues.
Many of prejudgment and racism happen without even giving second thoughts or happen in places where prejudgment and racism shouldn’t have happened. …show more content…
By letting out this random quote that without a formal background, Rankine let’s reader visualize random situation that might have happen in our own experience or pass/current issues that trigged racial problem between blacks and police officers. By looking at this quote it made me think about what this “white men can’t police their imagination” (Rankine 135) meant and what caused her to say notion like this. This was easily connectable with an analysis of public records, local news reports and Guardian reporting found that 32% of black people killed by police in 2015 were unarmed, as were 25% of Hispanic and Latino people, compared with 15% of white people killed. By Rankine’s notion it made focus on recurrences that happen to unarmed Michael Brown Jr. who was shot and killed by Ferguson police and makes reader think about what was effect of this reckless killing by white police. I wanted to focus on effect scar on family Michael Brown Jr. who was left behind to sorrows for his death. His family who is still hurt and scared forever because of white police who shot unarmed black person on prejudice. “At the end of the day, I still lost my boy,” he said. “I’m still hurting. My family’s still hurting.” (Salter and Suhr 2). “because white men can’t police” (Rankine 135) the racism victim of family is scared forever. People might easily think about how racism police brutality is between white
Many of prejudgment and racism happen without even giving second thoughts or happen in places where prejudgment and racism shouldn’t have happened. …show more content…
By letting out this random quote that without a formal background, Rankine let’s reader visualize random situation that might have happen in our own experience or pass/current issues that trigged racial problem between blacks and police officers. By looking at this quote it made me think about what this “white men can’t police their imagination” (Rankine 135) meant and what caused her to say notion like this. This was easily connectable with an analysis of public records, local news reports and Guardian reporting found that 32% of black people killed by police in 2015 were unarmed, as were 25% of Hispanic and Latino people, compared with 15% of white people killed. By Rankine’s notion it made focus on recurrences that happen to unarmed Michael Brown Jr. who was shot and killed by Ferguson police and makes reader think about what was effect of this reckless killing by white police. I wanted to focus on effect scar on family Michael Brown Jr. who was left behind to sorrows for his death. His family who is still hurt and scared forever because of white police who shot unarmed black person on prejudice. “At the end of the day, I still lost my boy,” he said. “I’m still hurting. My family’s still hurting.” (Salter and Suhr 2). “because white men can’t police” (Rankine 135) the racism victim of family is scared forever. People might easily think about how racism police brutality is between white