Since I couldn’t find the second article anywhere on the website or the databases, I’ll just blog on the first piece by Staples. This article was actually very interesting and kept my attention. I found it very straight forward and to the point. I wouldn’t say I found what he was saying shocking at all because I do see people on the streets that cross in fear of others or who see someone of a different race and automatically stereotype. I think we all do this to some extent but not to an extreme that Staples was speaking of. It was really sad that he talked of a women running in fear from him in the middle of the night. I also felt that he wrote in a way that everyone can relate to. I think many of us have experienced discrimination or seen it happening. All the stories that he spoke of showed how society today can brand a certain race as “violent” or “bad.” This doesn’t just happen with race either. Modern society today discriminates against not only race, but gender, age, religion and culture and it’s not right. I know a lot of people who put themselves above others who are different and it really gets to me that they aren’t open enough to change or uniqueness. The story that struck me most was when he spoke of being a young journalist in Chicago and actually getting the security called on him because the women at the front desk was frightened and didn’t know that he worked there, and all he was doing was bringing in a report for the magazine he was working with. People need to stop jumping to conclusions so quickly and making false assumptions about people that they don’t even know. It rude and unfair and I think this article presented perfectly the types of discrimination and stereotypes that society today can put into our heads.