Parallel Time Analysis

“Where fear and weapons meet--and they often do in urban America--there is always the possibility of death”. "They made me terrifying. Now I'd show them how terrifying I could be." Brent Staples the author of these quotes show a huge transformation from “Black men in public spaces” and “Parallel time”. Brent Staples opens “Black Men in Public Spaces” describing his first encounter and victim as h also does in “Parallel Time” by chance both incidents are, with well-dressed white women. “My first victim was a woman-white, well dressed, probably in her early twenties.” Staples being so affected and troubled by this encounter, came to a horrifying realization that even with his recently attained graduated status he was indistinguishable from a …show more content…
“On less traveled streets after dark, I grew accustomed to but never comfortable with people crossing to the other side of the street rather than pass me.” “I’d been a fool.” Staples states in “Parallel time”, he has an epiphany no matter what he did these people feared his existence. Staples encounters a well-dressed white woman walking at night as he had in “Black Men in Public Spaces” and he received the same response a frantic woman running like she was being pursued by, a mugger it was at this that Staples looked up and around wondering was this looked like to those who were watching from the window blinds above, suppressing the urge to run the emotion he felt in “Black Men in Public Spaces” that fearful compromise that he engaged in, was now replaced with anger and a new refusal at being racial profiled. “I’d been walking the streets grinning good evening at people who were frightened to death of me.” Continuing his metamorphic process first he desired to make them comfortable through whistling of classical music, to being as innocuous as possible for a man of his