How Does Walter Lie

On April 2, 2017, 60 Minutes aired the interview of Bill Whitaker with police officer, Betty Shelby. He questions the racial aspect of the shooting of Terence Crutcher. Specifically, he asked that “Was the fatal shooting of Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man, a wrongful death -- influenced by race -- or the outcome of Crutcher 's actions?” His twin sister, Tiffany Crutcher, does not believe this her brother’s doing. As Ray Owens said, “Betty Shelby very likely viewed Terence Crutcher as a ‘bad dude’ Is she a racist?

To summarize chapter five up Walter had met a famous baseball player. His name was Sugar Ray Robinson, and he was the welterweight champion, Also he met them back when slavery was around .Most of Walters’s life revolved around school and church, but his school was integrated .Even though his church had white people involved in some capacity. He wasn’t aware of the race problem, so in the summer his biological father moved to Harlem. That’s when he knew he was adopted. On pg.

This would be understandable if he had done this once, but it sees as if this has happened a lot in the past. Maybe the reason Walter is a “bad boy” is because the punishment isn’t good for Walter. This is because it says, “I liked to go to the principal’s office” (18) which makes it look like Walter likes going to the principal. In fact, the teachers might actually be rewarding Walter for his actions. At my school if a student did something

The settings Walter uses, especially the dirty dark city, doesn’t allow the protagonist, Ian Blackburn, to think differently and encourages Ian to judge the people based on their environment.

Walter’s loss of the money is a wall rising between Mama and her dream of owning her own house; she felt as though she couldn’t go forward. Part of what prevented Mama from ever achieving her dream was the racial discrimination against African-Americans. Mama, and particularly her late husband, felt that the world always stood in front of them on the path to their dreams. They felt the best that they could do was just lie down and hold on to the distant hope of their dream. “As I Grow Older” also tells of this part of the journey: “I am black.

In the beginning Walter is basically perceived as a jerk-he doesn’t seem to get along with anyone, not even his own family. His character likes to turn discussions into fights, make rude comments to his wife, and act all around immature. A part that accurately shows the way Walter conducts himself is when he is arguing with Ruth and says “Man say: I got to change my life , I'm choking to death, baby! And his woman say- Your eggs is getting cold!”

The skin is the largest organ of the human body and can display a range of different colors depending on the amount of melanin, a protein produced by special skin cells, that is in the skin. The more melanin that is created, the darker the skin tone. Despite the fact skin color is such a minor physiological difference, many have decided that it is enough of a reason to hate and discriminate against the minorities who possess a little more melanin than they do. This prejudice has managed to extensively infiltrate the justice system and law enforcement, causing black men to face multiple injustices such as being more likely to be convicted and given longer prison sentences than white men for the same crimes, having higher chances of being shot

Racism in the book Monster “Don't tell me you believe that “innocent until proven guilty””(Walter Dean Myers 52) the jury said. I believe in the book Monster by Walter Dean Myers while in jail and going through court sessions there is a lot of racism that the character Steve faces even while innocent unless proven guilty. An innocent black child was put on trial by the American legal system for a felony murder that was not his fault.

Ingrid, I agree that the police silence Walter because he is an African American, they do not feel as though he is entitled to an opinion. The police mute Walter and his family because they do not care about what they have to say, all they want to do is convict someone for killing the young girl and Walter is a perfect target. Unfortunately, minorities are an easy target to mute which leads to many innocent individuals being wrongly convicted. There is no reason for Walter to be convicted because nothing places him at the scene, but since he is a part of the minority group his voice is muted and his freedom is taken away.

In addition, it is not like the author is pulling these experiences out of thin air these are his experiences he is speaking of his own feelings. This adds so much more credibility to his message by showing readers a different point of view in situations usually told by the other side. Usually in any acts of “misconduct” between white and black people the side of the white person is mostly focused on and unless there is clear evidence contradicting the crime the black man is accused of there is a strong probability that the black man will go to jail

Option 1 America will never achieve true racial and social equality. Throughout American history there has never been a situation where there is true social and racial equality. Whether examples of racial prejudice against African-Americans or even the prejudice against Mexicans and illegal immigrants. These ways are not placed upon oppressing individuals at birth, they are placed among them by members of society and the social norms that are already in place in society.

In chapter 3, “Trials and Tribulation,” you read about Walter’s, arrest, his alibi, his trial and verdict, but what I find interesting is that Walter was so hopeful at the beginning, but went into anguish and fear. He went from thinking that he will be free soon, to doubting he will never be free from prison. During his time in prison, he heard from other prisoners about how the electric chair malfunctioned before, which made things worse for Walter and his emotional health. Stevenson explains, the end of the second paragraph, it says “Now he had found himself staring at the bleak walls of death row. Fear and anguish unlike anything he’d ever experienced settled on Walter” (56).

Walter’s statement tries to tell the women that he didn’t try to make the world the way it is now. Yes, he wants luxurious items for him and his wife. However, even though he seriously messed up, he’s still the man in the family and will continue to make the decisions for the

Walter further shows his false pride when he flaunts his newfound sense of power when Mr.Lindner, one of the Younger’s soon-to-be neighbors, offers him an unjust deal. Now that Walter has control over the family 's money, he considers himself the head of the family and decision maker; this plays an important role towards how Walter treats others now that he holds himself to a higher standard. This theme applies to Walter when the chairman of the “welcoming committee” (115) named Mr.Lindner pays a visit to the family a couple weeks before they 're supposed to move into their new home in Clybourne Park. During this visit, Mr.Lindner makes the offer of the Clybourne Park community “buy[ing] the house from [them] at a financial gain to [the] family” (118). Mr.Lindner’s offer represents the racial oppression and how the white community looks down upon and doesn’t want African american people dirtying their communities.

Even though the story mainly takes place decades before now, the fact that Walter’s story happened in a time where I never realized how bad African Americans were treated even after so many societal victories a few decades before that, reminds me that it may still be possible despite current changes. My crime classes taught me that evidence can be faulty, even witnesses testimonies, which can result in innocent people going to jail. This book backed up that lessen and showed that even in ridiculous cases an innocent person can be victimized just based on what a jury decides. It is easy to believe that the justice system is just fine and trust it if you do not know the truth, but even Walter had faith in the system that inevitably put him on death row,