Brian Copeland

“No I don’t want to go to school. The kids there bully me because I don’t look like them. My nose is wider and my skin is darker.” Your child comes home with bruises and cuts all over his body. You tell him that he should go back to school and that he would be accepted for who he is, but deep down you know that this isn’t always true. You have no words to tell your traumatized child and this leaves you heartbroken. We live in a place where humans segregate each other by skin color. However, we created this place. We built a society that tolerates racism. In the articles, “Don’t Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgements” by Robert L. Heilbroner and Not a Genuine Black Man by Brian Copeland, we discover why humans tend to stereotype others and how being profiled can make a person feel isolated, humiliated, and question their existence. Stereotypes make it almost impossible to see a person for who they really are because we create…

Jimmy At 3:00 in the morning (haunting hour) I heard screaming downstairs and I went to go see what it was, but I kept getting stuck in all those blankets that I had on my bed. When I finally got out of bed and went down the stairs. It was to dark to see so I had to struggle to find the light switches,but when I did I found my parents dead on the ground with their heads dangling from the celing and their eyes rolling back. I also saw a bloody knife on the ground next to them. I had no time to…

BILL’S GRILL On a silent dawn in Denver there was a little restaurant named Bill’s Grill. Jack the chef just checked in for his 7 to 3 shift. You, Jillian are walking down the street and you hear a gunshot. Jack runs past you running into you and running down street is a man in a black hoodie and black sweatpants. He to runs down the street and cuts into a back alley and disappears. You run in and find a man bleeding out on the floor against the wall. You rush to help him and you call an…

EXT. STREET - DAY Tiagnos walks across the street heading to his house and he sees several soldiers passing him quickly. Tiagnos slows down and he watches them passing to the other street where his house is located. He stands at the corner of the street watching as soldiers raid his house, screams of slaves inside the house. A SOLDIER, 25, physically strong, wears metal armor, drags Holeo to his commander. A COMMANDOR, 30s, tall and strong, rides a hourse, wears leather armor, with a scar on…

I slowly stared at thee proof of my crime as the guilt was slowly eating me alive. I stared at the piece of paper that would determine the possibility my life and death. I made a glimpse at the paper one last time, Priya Patel 58/100, with a note saying “ Get signed by parent” as I took short breaths as I felt a heavy-load of trepidation, fear. It was a Thursday afternoon 2:43 pm. At school it felt like The Jonathan Wakeman School had prisoned 23 people in a four walled room filled with…

Origin: On the date of 9/28/17 I was dispatched to 1440 Maple. When I arrived at the scene there were two neighbors outside their house. I approached them and asked them what is going on? They responded by saying “we hear some yelling and screaming going on in there”. I approached the house of 1440 maple the front door of the house hold. Officer Smith knocked on the door. Smith then heard a male saying “don’t answer that door”. I opened the door. Me and officer smith then observed Robert hall…

Everyone panicked when they read the daily paper. Immediately, the residents of the town were filled with fear and confusion of what happened. The town was supposed to be the safest place in the world, with steel walls surrounding it, cameras everywhere and retinal and fingerprint scans required to open every door. Even with all of those securities, Mr. Jenkins woke up to a stolen wallet. When he reported this to the local police, they were skeptical. “What do you mean you can’t find your…

I heard a story recently about Paul Larson. He was a contestant on the television game show called “Press Your Luck”, in the mid 1980’s. Larson was notable for winning over $100,000 in cash and prizes. Up to that point he won the largest one day total ever won on a game show. Upon reviewing videotapes of the show, the producers of the show began to notice that Larson would celebrate after his spins, earlier than a normal contestant would have a chance to see and respond to what space was…

The Murder in Hosier Lane The cool wind blows through the abandoned alley ways of Melbourne. 3 am, March the 5th and not a soul could be heard. The dark lanes were accompanied by dull, flickering street lights making for a sinister atmosphere. Not a car nor a person in sight. Then a loud, gut wrenching scream broke all silence. This was followed by the sound of echoing footsteps fleeing the scene of Hosier Lane. Moments later the sounds of screeching sirens filled up the dark atmosphere. * *…

The Butcher The smell of rotting meat forcefully entered my nostrils. The ground was covered in coagulated blood. The room looked like an art studio that hadn’t been cleaned for years. I tried looking for Sarah, but there was blood in my eyes and I couldn’t see very well. I shouted out to Jen and Rick. Both were laying on the floor side by side, as blood pooled next to their face. I heard a low moan coming from my left. Matt looked up at me and before he got a word out, I noticed his left eye…