Assessing a situation based on the physical space is something all humans will always do. One does it to preemptively protect against any dangers instead of being blindsided and caught off guard. This sense can be tied back to the instinctual fight or flight response in order to save one's own life. However, often does this play through into everyday life causing individuals to interact solely on physical space. Physical space affects the way individuals interact with each other based of judgment.
Walking in the dark, it is not unusually for one to be a little cautious. Especially when that someone is in one of the world's largest cities with no known help anywhere to be found. Taking all this into account it is easy to see how Brent Staples’ tall, Black, figured …show more content…
Because of history, tension has always existed in some amount between races. In James Baldwin’s essay (source A) Baldwin highlights the exclusion he faced when trying to eat at a diner in the early 1900s. Because of his race the people in the diner always wanted him to leave as they thought he affected the physical space as a black Man. They acted on the physical space, created when Baldwin entered, by kicking him out because of his physical appearance. Racism affecting the physical space is present in every one of the sources listed. The underlying tone is not different between Staples and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article for the Atlantic (source B). Just like Staples, Coats shows how physical space is affected by how people judge each other most often by race. Coats cites examples in the article highlighting a black man who was killed by the police without sufficient reason. The cops that shot him felt threatened most notably by the fact that they were white and the man they were persecuting was black. The physical space was acted of only because the cops felt threatened by it which may not have happened had the vittum been
Walking in the dark, it is not unusually for one to be a little cautious. Especially when that someone is in one of the world's largest cities with no known help anywhere to be found. Taking all this into account it is easy to see how Brent Staples’ tall, Black, figured …show more content…
Because of history, tension has always existed in some amount between races. In James Baldwin’s essay (source A) Baldwin highlights the exclusion he faced when trying to eat at a diner in the early 1900s. Because of his race the people in the diner always wanted him to leave as they thought he affected the physical space as a black Man. They acted on the physical space, created when Baldwin entered, by kicking him out because of his physical appearance. Racism affecting the physical space is present in every one of the sources listed. The underlying tone is not different between Staples and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article for the Atlantic (source B). Just like Staples, Coats shows how physical space is affected by how people judge each other most often by race. Coats cites examples in the article highlighting a black man who was killed by the police without sufficient reason. The cops that shot him felt threatened most notably by the fact that they were white and the man they were persecuting was black. The physical space was acted of only because the cops felt threatened by it which may not have happened had the vittum been