Individual: In the beginning of the movie, Eva was jumped by a group of black men & women after accidently running through their territory, simply because she was Hispanic, not black.
Institutional: This shows when Ms. Gruwell is reading the story Mario wrote about his childhood friend. He and a friend were sitting on a park bench as Marcus’ friend unwrapped a gun, while that no one will ever jump them again. Shortly after, the friend negligently discharged a round and killed himself. Marcus’ character wrote that he stayed in the same spot with him friend until police came. However, when police came “all they saw was a body, a gun, and