Analysis Of Black Men In Public Space By Brent Staples

Racism is one of the world’s biggest issues. A lot of people are oblivious to the existence of racism that exist in police enforcement and schools or they would just choose to ignore it. Racism is everywhere, it doesn’t matter if you were born in a good or bad family it’s about what you learned throughout your lifetime like the things that shaped you into the person you became today. Blacks are treated the worst in racism because it goes far back to dark days and lingers back to this day in age and it’s still a major issue. The author Brent staples wrote a story called “black men in public space” and in the story Brent tells you stories of his past experience with how white people saw black people. Racism is all over social media and the biggest social outburst is none other than police enforcement, our protectors, and our security. In the essay “black men in public space” Brent staples explains how blacks appear to white people. In Brent staples story he gives examples about how whites interacted with him. Brent was skinny, people thought that he was dangerous. What people didn’t know was that Brent was frail and gentle. “It was clear that she thought herself the quarry of a mugger, a rapist, or worse”. …show more content…
Every time he would walk on the streets at night women would grip there bags and get ready to be tackled or mugged. The author says that it’s reasonable for women to act that way at night because they a vulnerable to street violence. Trying to show that he is not what people think he is, he expresses his opinions and beliefs by being a writer.” I chose, perhaps unconsciously, to remain a shadow- timid, but a survivor” (Staples 8). In the quote Brent talks about how he was always around violence but he never gave it no mind. He has seen family and friends get buried. Brent is now careful about how he looks and acts in front of