Summary Of 'Thugs' By Akiba Solomon

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Imagine waking into a store and feeling like your being watched by the workers around every corner. Knowing you have that target, that label, on you just because there are other people who “look like you”, makes it hard to be your own person without people having preconceived ideas about you. I feel that people judge because it gives them the feeling that they have an understanding of a situation and that they feel in control.
In Akiba Solomon’s “Thugs. Students. Rioters. Fans” she explains that two of the same types of protests can happen in different parts of the U.S. and be seen in two totally different contexts because of where they took place. She uses examples of a newspaper article about a protest in Baltimore that took place in a black

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