I chose The Ransom of Red Chief. The story was about two guys want to kidnap a boy whose father was rich. And they did. But they find the boy was super annoying and he freaked them out. So they returned the bot back without asking the money and they even paid for it. For the racial undertones part, I am not much sure about that. But I can see there were somethings about Indian and American things. The story is an irony. It gave readers a very interesting thought that who was the actual kidnapper? The two guys or the bot’s father?
I think what the story wanted to teach us is do not make money through wrong way. If you do the bad thing, there must be some pulishment give to you. The story just told the truth by a funny way and make more sences to readers. So be a good guy and never do wrong things.