The 57 Bus Dashka Slaters

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Argumentative essay Did you know that “Percentage of African American youths who spend their time in an adult prison: 58%”(Slater 301). The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater is about a real-life incident that occurred in Oakland, California, on November 4, 2013. About a 16 year old boy named Richard that was peer pressured into lighting Sasha, a genderqueer, skirt on fire while they were asleep on the bus. Because of this, Sasha is very hurt and Richard goes to jail for seven years. Because of this experience, I think that juveniles should be charged as adults.

Juveniles should be charged as adults based on what was read in the book. It seemed that he decided to light the skirt out of free will. This is shown in the middle of the book.“I'm homophobic,”
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