Mirza Tanbir
Essay
03-10-2015
Racism
In Brent Staples essay “Black Men and Public Space”, the author describes his experience tells his story about an individual in a public place where people fear him based on his races by categories. He stated that the public still thinks a black man violent and dangerous because of his race and without justification. This causes a black individual to seen as a victim. Staples main argument is public space and how discrimination affected on him and being stereotyped.
Racism is something that we have all observed. Many people fail to believe that race is not a biological category, but a false arrangement of people with no technically variable facts. If we are talking about public space and racism, for a let’s use Oprah Winfrey example. She went into an expensive store in Switzerland and “a sales clerk in a store in Zurich would not show her a particular handbag because she believed it was "too expensive" for the talk-show host” (Cooper). This is something that people still think that if a person is black he or she cannot afford to buy expensive items. People usually think that black people do not have a big amount of money to buy an expensive bag and that’s a part …show more content…
A gender is a situation in which someone is treated less well because of his or her sex. Usually a woman is treated less well than a man. If a black man is walking in the street at midnight, wearing a jacket with a hood or dressed business casual and a white woman is walking in the same street, she will thinks that this black individual could do something bad to her. It does not make any sense for her to assume that a black man wearing a hood he is going to do something to her. In his essay Staples states that “after dark, on the warren like streets of Brooklyn where I live, I often see women who fear the worst from me” (Staples). She had feared that a black man is walking behind her so he can do something harm to
Essay
03-10-2015
Racism
In Brent Staples essay “Black Men and Public Space”, the author describes his experience tells his story about an individual in a public place where people fear him based on his races by categories. He stated that the public still thinks a black man violent and dangerous because of his race and without justification. This causes a black individual to seen as a victim. Staples main argument is public space and how discrimination affected on him and being stereotyped.
Racism is something that we have all observed. Many people fail to believe that race is not a biological category, but a false arrangement of people with no technically variable facts. If we are talking about public space and racism, for a let’s use Oprah Winfrey example. She went into an expensive store in Switzerland and “a sales clerk in a store in Zurich would not show her a particular handbag because she believed it was "too expensive" for the talk-show host” (Cooper). This is something that people still think that if a person is black he or she cannot afford to buy expensive items. People usually think that black people do not have a big amount of money to buy an expensive bag and that’s a part …show more content…
A gender is a situation in which someone is treated less well because of his or her sex. Usually a woman is treated less well than a man. If a black man is walking in the street at midnight, wearing a jacket with a hood or dressed business casual and a white woman is walking in the same street, she will thinks that this black individual could do something bad to her. It does not make any sense for her to assume that a black man wearing a hood he is going to do something to her. In his essay Staples states that “after dark, on the warren like streets of Brooklyn where I live, I often see women who fear the worst from me” (Staples). She had feared that a black man is walking behind her so he can do something harm to