Garnette Cadgogan’s “Walking While Black,” illustrates the bitter realities of racism in United States. As a society we fail to acknowledge that there is only one race and that is the human race. Race is something that is socially constructed and the idea of race is something is biological has been disputed there is no differences between us as human beings. One of his strongest arguments that he makes is, “I wasn’t prepared for any of this. I had come from a majority-black country in which no one was wary of me because of my skin color. Now I wasn’t sure who was afraid of me.” The realization for Cadgogan is that being black had a lot of negative connation’s in the US; it meant that you had be extremely careful if you were black. He becomes