Discrimination In 'Black Men And Public Space'

Have you ever just been able to walk around without being judged? Simply walking down the street can get you judged, looked at funny and even assumptions. Racism still exists in this world today and it’s sad to say that “everyone is equal” when that is not true at all. People get treated differently every day where ever you live. Just by the way you look should not determine the way you are going to get treated especially for the way you dress, act, gender, and race. In recent years, since racism first began non colored people would think they are better and smarter than colored people. Reflecting on an essay called “Black men and public space” is a man who is black and has encountered many people who would judge him by the color of his skin. He experiences people treating him differently and on experience he goes through is walking down the street, at the time 22 years old and a graduate student from university of Chicago, there is a women in front of him who is more than likely scared because the sun is down and she has a black man walking behind her quickly moves into a different street hoping for him not to follow and she took off (Staples, p. 190). The women looking back at him because he is a six …show more content…
Such differences do not explain how people develop such categorizations and identities, how they imbue ethno racial groups with meaning, or when and how they draw on salient identities, beliefs, and feelings in any particular context or setting. Some people hate themselves for being colored because they would get picked on and well you really cannot chose they body you are born in and just have to deal with the discrimination. Defining someone by their color can be/is offensive so always keep that in mind. The way you dress, the way you talk, and the type of color you are should not determine the way you will be treated. Don’t judge a book by its