Some people have the ability to alter public space through racial, gender and environmental stereotypes . The ability to have a person go across the street just to get away from you. The ability to have people speed walk by you. The ability to change another persons movement. What is this ability? In Brent staples, "Black men and public spaces he discusses how stereotypes affected him and his skin color. Staples explain his experiences throughout the story through of incidents in his life. Staples causes confusion by saying his "first victim was a woman". Which has wordplay on the word victim. some people think he hurt this woman in some way, some people already have the assumption of black people just by making that statement. People then
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That now you have to adjust your speed and not look so "menacing" even though your not trying to do anything wrong. Just like staples, that women could 've thought I was a mugger or something. It 's a terrible and embarrassing feeling because her "speed walking" and scared look made me feel like I committed a crime when I didn 't. I 'm thinking to myself why was she walking fast and why did she have a concerned look on her Face? Well for one, it was a very cold night. I 'm walking fast with my hands in my pocket." I could understand why she would be scared. I 've told my friend the story and she said "don 't worry about it, I know you wouldn 't her or anybody" even I would do what she did no matter who you are, she …show more content…
It 's hard to believe but this incident happened on February 26, 2012 and not February 26, 1968. seventeen year old Trayvon Martin walked to a store to buy a iced tea and Skittles. While on his way home from the store, Trayvon was confronted by George Zimmerman, who supposedly thought he looked suspicious. Trayvon apparently "altered the public space" like Brent staples mentions. Zimmerman then shoots Martin in the chest, killing him. These cases happen almost all the time of young black men being wrongfully judged, possibly even killed, because of their skin
That now you have to adjust your speed and not look so "menacing" even though your not trying to do anything wrong. Just like staples, that women could 've thought I was a mugger or something. It 's a terrible and embarrassing feeling because her "speed walking" and scared look made me feel like I committed a crime when I didn 't. I 'm thinking to myself why was she walking fast and why did she have a concerned look on her Face? Well for one, it was a very cold night. I 'm walking fast with my hands in my pocket." I could understand why she would be scared. I 've told my friend the story and she said "don 't worry about it, I know you wouldn 't her or anybody" even I would do what she did no matter who you are, she …show more content…
It 's hard to believe but this incident happened on February 26, 2012 and not February 26, 1968. seventeen year old Trayvon Martin walked to a store to buy a iced tea and Skittles. While on his way home from the store, Trayvon was confronted by George Zimmerman, who supposedly thought he looked suspicious. Trayvon apparently "altered the public space" like Brent staples mentions. Zimmerman then shoots Martin in the chest, killing him. These cases happen almost all the time of young black men being wrongfully judged, possibly even killed, because of their skin