How it went down by Kekla Magoon

     So far, there book "How it went down" is about a tragedy occured when 16-year old Trariq Johnson had died due to 2 gunshot wounds. The book also mentions how the sixteen year old was black, amd the shooter, Jack Franklin was white. Then, Tariq's friends amd family and other padestrians are question to find out more details within Tariq's death. I am a bit curious to know why the author if this book included what skin color Tariq was and what color skin the shooter was. The author is probably trying to hint out America's problem with racial slurs and situations. 

     On the very first page of the story, the character Jennica describes the shooter's skin color as a "more of a whispy, dirty white like clouds on an average winter day". Then when people were asked what they saw, the character Noodle saw Tariq and a "light guy into it. Guy looked like a refrigerator." So far two people have described the man's skin color which is strange to why this was added. Then Noodle heard Tariq telling a man who just came out of his car to "mind your own business, cracker." These quotes demonstrate today's use of words to describe someone. Also, everyone so far is describing Jack Franklin (the shooter) as "the white guy" which is another phrase that I hear people use.

     In conclusion, i think the author is trying to hint out a problem in America in which black people are being shot, but witnesses describing the shooters in such a racially way rather than using adjectives like big, small, etc. In my opinion, the situation in this book relates so much to today's problems to cases like Michael Brown, along with how people describe the situation.