After You, My Dear Alphonse And The Test: Discrimination

Discrimination is spread throughout our country. More so spread throughout our world. At one point in a person’s life they will get discriminated on whether if they are white or black, male or female, lesbian or gay there will come a day. In the two stories “After You, My Dear Alphonse” by Shirley Jackson and “The Test” by Angelica Gibbs they both have at least one caucasian being discriminative towards a black African American.. In After You, My Dear Alphonse” by Shirley Jackson two boys named Johnny who is caucasian and Boyd who is black go to Johnny's house after playing outside. Johnny’s mother than see’s how Boyd is a black African American and the first thing that comes to mind is that Boyd is probably less fortunate than them. In “The

In “The Test” by Angelica Gibbs a young woman is going to her drivers test and the instructor is a white male. He gives her a hard time by acting shocked to know that she doesn’t come from a bad neighborhood or to know that she has gone to a university. IN the short story it quotes “Sure you don’t really want to sneak out at nights to meet some young blood.” This quote explains how the instructor made rude comments of her only needing to drive to sneak out at night. Another rude comment the inspector made was that she had told him she had gotten her degree and the inspector started to laugh incredibly hard. That is when she had lost her temper as anyone would have been to the rude comments made because she is black.. Back then if you were a black African AMerican taking a driver's test with a white instructor the chances of you losing your temper would probably be high depending on the type of comments the instructor

But the time zone isn’t showed around our time which of course is 2017. The two stories show that this was before the 70’s the time in where discriminating others were perfectly normal to everybody. In After You, My Dear Alphonse it states “ Boyd was surprised. She takes care of us.” Mrs. Wilson wasn’t surprised that his mom didn’t work because she is black and most women did not have lots of jobs back then. Most were stay at home moms. In “The Test” it states “You all ain’t Southern, well dog my cats if I didn’t think you all came from down undah.” This shows how this was before the 70’s because lots of blacks were from the south at the time, so he expected that she was from the South. Back then not a lot of people cared if they were to be discriminatory towards a person because everything was just perfectly fine of the horrible things that people id to each