Seeing Danger In A Face Summary

Racism derives from prejudice and ignorance, both of which are common in human nature. The article Seeing Danger in a Face informs about the targeting of an individual based on generalizations of their race. Alex Bastian, a Christian Armenian-American, had been detained at an airport under suspicion that he had relations with terrorist groups and countries such as Turkey or Syria. The second half of the article goes into depth of reasons why he could have been detained since the officials there had not given him a straightforward answer. Bastian continues to talk about the cause of racial profiling, followed by unconstitutionality and ineffectiveness of it. He had been thought of as a member of an extremist group known as ISIS despite how illogical that situation was, and had to use his title as a San Francisco prosecutor to get out of the situation. This event had demonstrated how quick folks can come to a conclusion based off of one’s appearance.
He had been accused of the preconceived notion that all colored people are immoral and therefore, his word would never matter over a white man. Like Bastian and how he would have become kidnapped and beheaded if he were to meet with a jihadist group, the idea that Tom Robinson was physically able to rape Mayella Ewell is preposterous. In the middle of the article, Bastian states, “Even if I had been a Muslim-American, what connection would my appearance or religion have to my potential risk to national security?”. Why, I remember your teacher talking on about how Hitler was evil yet wasn’t hesitant to say that “it’s time somebody taught ‘em a lesson” when Tom was convicted. In both cases, people had been quick to go along with social normalities that were incorrect in the first place, proving injustice to unfortunately prevail in certain