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The connection that I found between Patricia Williams’s essay, The Death of The Profane, and Maya Angelou’s Graduation is their struggle to be proud of their race. What I mean by struggle is the obstacles that they encounter every day simply because of their skin. Both of them, through lives challenges and experiences, begin to doubt themselves and the ‘worth’ of the African American race. One example that Patricia Williams encountered during her struggle was when she was trying to purchase a Christmas present for her mother and was not allowed inside the store because of the color of her skin. “I was enraged,” she said. She was so angered by this that she knew she had to voice her opinion. She typed up what had happened to her on a big poster and stuck in the window of the store. She did this to show the public what kind of mockery and injustices some of the store