He specifically uses irony to mock assumptions based on appearances and racial profiling. The first example of irony comes from William, who thinks that "Seattle might be the only city in the country where white people lived comfortably on a street named after Martin Luther King, Jr" (Alexie 61). William goes on later in the story to explain how he is often mistaken for someone from the Middle East because of his skin color. He goes on to say that Americans should feel lucky because "I'm a Native American and so I have ten thousand more reasons to terrorize the United States than any of those Taliban assholes" (Alexie 62). William finds it amusing that he is arrested because he looks like a potential terrorist even though his race is completely different and he has a different grudge to hold against Americans. He goes on to tell Fekadu a story that happened shortly after the terrorist attack of September 11, 2011; he explains that he was walking down the street when a group of men shouted at him to go back to his own country. Alexie uses irony effectively to support his argument that racial profiling or assumptions based on appearances are often wrong, but he doesn't do so in an overtly unpleasant way; instead, he makes reading humorous and enjoyable while still getting his point across.