Just Walk On By Analysis

The way people perceive things can play a major roll on how the world see it. If someone gives the perception that someone else is a theif the world will label them as a theif. Most black people are perceived as a "gangster" when they really aren't. Some black people are actual gangsters and should only get labeled as a gangster because of their actions. In the story "Just Walk on By" the narrator started off the story with how he first started stalking women. Not haven read the story before; when he started it off with "My first victim was a woman--white, well dressed, porobably in her early twenties", I automatically assumed it was a young black male or a middle age white male. Reading further into the story I found out that the narrator
was a young black male. He had stalked a woman down a dark alley and from her perspective he was a mugger, rapist, or worse. While nearly running, she disappeared into a cross street within seconds.

One major problem black young men have is the way the police perceive them. Police officers always seem to perceive black young men as a threat. There have been multiple situtaions where a police officer seemed threated by a black young man and like stated in the text: "Where fear and weapons meet there is alwats the possibility of death." there always seem to have a young black man dead because the cop felt threated by him. I feel that one reason the police officers label them as a threat is because the way "gangster" movies pursue their life.