Discrimination

After reading Jlucky's story, i realized that I have a story on he same lines. I have a friend who is African American and one night she was driving home late. She was driving a very nice car and was then pulled over. When she was pulled over, the cop came up to her and asked if this was her car. The officer thought that the car was stolen because it was an African American driving a nice car. The cop continued to ask her multiple times if this was her car and she told him that it was. He needed to see her license and registration to believe that it was in fact her car. After hearing this, I was very surprised because stuff like this should not happen. Cops or anyone should not discriminate against people of a different race. I also would like to talk about one of the readings that really stood out to me. The one that stuck out the most was the one about “The Dead Book.” Reading about all of the horrible things that happened on that boat is crazy. How could the captain or anyone physically beat and torture someone to death like that. It is awful to think that innocent people like her were being thrown over board after being killed while they were on the boat.