In the typical case, people would look outside their window and see a black man in their otherwise white neighborhood and make the snap judgment that he was up to no good, even when there was no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
U tipičnom slučaju, ljudi bi pogledali kroz prozor i ugledali tamnoputog čovjeka  u inače bjelačkoj četvrti i brzinski zaključili  da ne smjera ništa dobro, iako nema nikakvog dokaza  kriminalnim aktivnostima.