A Critical Analysis Of Jill Leovy's Ghetto Side

One creates an opinion and it can be very difficult to be open to other opinions once one knows where they stand in a situation and without meaning to, one can be bias. In Jill Leovy’s “Ghetto Side” she uses detective Wally Tennelle’s life to inform us of the various victims that have been killed in South Los Angeles. She uses the detectives Tennelle and Skaggs as ways to introduce many deaths of people of color. But her perspective on these detectives changes the audience’s perspective on the situation. She does not include how people from the community might view the detectives, which can be very important to have considered in her book. Leovy’s style of writing is strong but she is often disconnected by the change in flow and lack of including

She does not seem to realize that they intimidate the people from the poor community. In “On Racism and White Privilege” Jennifer R. Holladay talks about the perks and advantages of being a white woman in America. She says that one of the advantages is that “store security personnel or law enforcement officers do not harass me, pull me over or follow me because of my race.” Holladay did not realize that colored people are harassed simply because of their skin color. Later she told her white colleagues about being pulled over by a cop for speed driving but also because she is a white woman that was out late in the night in Rosa Parks. They all agreed that they too would be frustrated if they had been in Holladay’s position. But when she told a black colleague, she reacted differently. Holladay’s black colleague stated, “you just never have to worry about those things do you Jennifer?” If the cop had stopped Holladay’s black colleague for driving at a fast speed, perhaps the story would have been different. Being a white woman in a dangerous place meant that Holladay had to get to safety. But if it had been Holladay’s colleague, it would have been seen as a dangerous black woman speeding. One might say that people are intimidated by different things, for some it might be cops. Cops tend to intimidate more people of colored skin. If cops treated all the people they interact with, with the same level of respect there would be more justice and less