Citizen unfolds a world where racism has never gone away. It is a powerful book that tells the slights, but there is nothing slight about them. Through the brief encounters and retelling of stories, Claudia brought us to reflect on our conscious or unconscious racism itself. What shocks me is how black people themselves endure with the unconscious racism. “You” expected the friend to voice out the unfair treatment that “you” have just experienced while being unable to speak “yourself.” “You” submitted to the white’s requirement even though “your” friend did nothing wrong. The inability to stand against these unfair treatments suggests the penetration of racism in white people and black people’s minds. Whether it being unconsciously avoiding sitting next to a black, concerning about black’s safety or doubting black’s credibility, our society seems to be filled with prejudices. The silence of the black in front of these conscious and unconscious racism indicates black’s lack of agency to maintain their personal willingness and freedom. Does racism instill people’s ideologies that the black themselves would assume a natural power difference between the white and the black and thus get used to it?