What's wrong with today's society? There are numerous answers to this question, but a big problem is a discrimination interracial and even intraracial. The media is a large distributor of stories about “Black Live Matter,” “Blue Lives Matter,” and “Gay Lives Matter.” The media’s stories tell of African Americans, police and members of the LGBT+ community all discriminated in different ways through riots, parades and unfortunately shootings. There are two authors share their stories of discrimination; “FOB’s vs. Twinkies: The New Discrimination is Interracial” and “Black Men and Public Spaces.” In the first article “FOB's vs. Twinkies”, written by Grace Hsiang, tells the stories Hsiang heard in her college psychology class. Most of the stories told by her classmates were their personal experiences. All of her classmate's stories surprised Hsiang because most of them were discriminated within their culture, or intraracial. In the second article “Black Men and Public Space,” written by Brent Staples, tells about his personal experience of discrimination in public places. The article was for Ms. Magazine. Staples was discriminated by other people …show more content…
Twinkies” and “Black Men and Public Space” are similar in multiple ways. The items are mainly similar with the several features correspondingly to the topic of discrimination. Both told from personal experience of discrimination which means Hsiang and Staples experience everything first. According to Hsiang, “... the teacher asked the students to volunteer our experience with racism or ethnic harassment” (342). Hsiang’s article uses first person pronouns stating she was in the classroom while her classmates told their stories of discrimination. In Staples’s article, “My first victim was a woman…” (346). Just as Hsiang, Staples used first person pronouns to describe his encounter with a lady in the streets. The articles were both written to inform the public of discrimination within