Black Men In Public Space

In Brent Staples essay Black Lives Matter is justified. People from all over the world have different opinions about The Black Lives Matter movement.Everybody is entitled to their own opinion but if you have an opinion about something this serious controversy breaks out. In this world we have many times where people are perceived wrongly and sometimes it ends up in tragedy. Brent Staples essay Black Men and Public Space is about black men being judged just by how they look and the color of their skin. This movement sometimes has negative consequences behind it like riots, mass murders, etc. Negative consequences are needed because American Citizens have freedom of speech and beliefs; there for causing people to have controversy which can lead …show more content…
Now the topic in his essay is an important one. “To her, the youngish black man-a broad six feet two inches with a beard and billowing hair, both hands shoved into the pockets of a bulky military jacket-seemed menacingly close.” This quote shows one of many people’s reactions to seeing him thinking he is a threat and being worried and wanting to run away from him. Brent Staples wrote this essay to show us that we are all suppose to be treated equally but we aren’t always treated as such. “After dark, on the warrenlike streets of Brooklyn where I live, I often see women who fear the worst from me.”, in this quote it is a prime example of judging someone before you know them and being prejudice and that is what the story and the TED talk are about. People who perceive others wrong often don’t think about the person’s feeling, this quote shows the point perfectly. “Over the years, I learned to smother the rage I felt at so often being taken for a criminal.” One day maybe we can live in a society of where we do not judge people.The next time you meet someone of color or a different ethnicity try not to judge them because they are