He was a black man trying to buy a house in a predominately white neighborhood. ... I used to hear some of my black friends talk about "how hard it is to be a black man in America." ... The white person is instantly approved when he is asked if he makes more than $18,000 a year, he says no, but when the black person is asked the same question, he says that he makes $17,000 a year and is denied because "he could get a raise and go over the limit," (Invisible). ... Minorities are sometimes discriminated against by potential employers and landlords because of where they live (Invisible). ...

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The first being as to how this event quickly turned from cop versus man to white cop versus black man. ... In Ferguson, Missouri an 18 year old young man named Michael Brown was stopped and confronted by a police officer, namely Officer Darren Wilson, after Officer Wilson received a police radio to pursue a suspect in the area matching Michael Browns appearance because of a robbery at a local convenient store. ... The delivery of this description almost immediately infers that the reason that Michael Brown was killed was because he was a black man being pursued by a white man. ...

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