Racial profiling in Ragtime My Time

In the article “Ragtime, My Time,” Alton Fitzgerald White went though life doing everything right. He was raised to be respectful and had great manners. White was very successful in life. In the play “Ragtime, My Time,” White uses an analogy to compare himself to the main character in the play. Throughout the article, White gives vivid details of what he went though in one day, being racially discriminated against by the law enforcement.

In the article, White doesn’t understand why this discrimination is happening to him. Whites’ voice fluctuates throughout the whole paper. In the beginning, he has a pleasant tone. He talks about his life as he grows up and how successful he is now. Further in the article he is angry, disappointed, even shocked at what is taking place in his own condo complex. I would even say he is dumfounded at the racial discrimination by the police officers.

White also illustrates a strong point in the article. No matter how hard you work and what you do, you will always be racially discriminat

them with no questions and no regard for our character or our lives.” (White 422)

White has also been emotionally torn over what has happened. White is disgusted with the fact the he was taken from his home, put in a patrol car and taken to the headquarters. He is in jail, has been stripped searched, and been interrogated numerous times.”…to being told that they knew exactly who I was and my responsibility to the show and that fact they knew they already had whom they wanted, left me in absolute disbelief.” (White 422) From beginning to end White knew he had to put all his pride aside to endure the pain he went though. All of this makes him feel disgusted, horrified, embarrassed, nasty, and a lot of other indescribable feelings.

White also appeals to what is happening using logic. He has a clean record, has never done anything wrong. He is a black man in the wrong place at the wrong time. He helped the officers get in to the building, so why did they arrest him? Why did the officers tell him to stay there? Why did they search him and his backpack over and over aga

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