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Just Walk On By Tressie Cottom

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In her essay, Whistling Vivaldi Won’t Save You, Tressie Cottom talks about Ben Staples

essay, Just Walk On By, in which he acts differently in public to ease peoples perspective of him.

Tressie mentions this particular essay because of a ill-advised shooting of an unarmed black man

by the police. She says that Brent Staples is right to a point, like in the case of Jonathan Ferrell.

Mr. Ferrell got into a terrible car accident and when he was able to get out of his car he walked

over to someone’s house, who had called the police. When the police showed up they ended up

shooting him ten times ultimately killing him.

Tressie Cottom argues that by changing yourself if does not necessarily mean it will save

your life. Jonathan

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