Lance, Ricky and Their Eyes: A Counternarrative to Ricky’s Point of View in “Trapped”

“Does race actually doesn’t matter?” “Or do individuals actually have different experiences based on their race?” These are questions I ask myself when I think about situations involving ambiguous discrimination. Thus, these are questions I asked myself while reading “Trapped”. One of the narratives that this story engages with through Ricky’s point of view is that institutionalized racism is not an issue in contemporary societies. For someone like Ricky, who probably rarely experiences discrimination, it’s easy to believe such a statement because on paper (according to constitutions and…