Imagine you don’t have the opportunity of education, jobs, and success in your life because of your race. Racism is the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another. In American, there is a lot of racism that still exists in our society during decades. During many years, race, gender, and stereotypes are a significant fact in united states because people look at the perspective of who they want people to be. As Brent staples and James Baldwin points out the racism has been one of the issues that they were facing and fighting in order to stop racial discrimination.
Brent staple is a person who experiences the racism in his own life because he struggles with stereotypes in our society. In “black men and public space” by Brent staples, staples states “when I was working as a journalist in Chicago and was rushing into the office of a magazine I was writing for with a deadline story in hand, I was mistaken for a burglar.” (Staples) The racist assumption by the white people in the building that a black man who is running must be a burglar led to ridiculously unfair results, for the office manager called security and pursued Staples through the halls, nearly to his editor's door. "I had no way of proving who I was”. It shows how your racial identify how you will b treated throughout your life because of …show more content…
For instance “ she did not ask me what I wanted, but repeated, as though she had learned it somewhere, we don’t serve negroes here. She did not say it with the blunt, derisive hostility to which I had grown so accustomed, but rather, with a note of apology in her voice and fear”. It explains why his father has his own belief and Baldwin starts to understand his father more because he experienced the same discrimination against his color. Baldwin discusses how he is fighting against himself and the hatred in his
Brent staple is a person who experiences the racism in his own life because he struggles with stereotypes in our society. In “black men and public space” by Brent staples, staples states “when I was working as a journalist in Chicago and was rushing into the office of a magazine I was writing for with a deadline story in hand, I was mistaken for a burglar.” (Staples) The racist assumption by the white people in the building that a black man who is running must be a burglar led to ridiculously unfair results, for the office manager called security and pursued Staples through the halls, nearly to his editor's door. "I had no way of proving who I was”. It shows how your racial identify how you will b treated throughout your life because of …show more content…
For instance “ she did not ask me what I wanted, but repeated, as though she had learned it somewhere, we don’t serve negroes here. She did not say it with the blunt, derisive hostility to which I had grown so accustomed, but rather, with a note of apology in her voice and fear”. It explains why his father has his own belief and Baldwin starts to understand his father more because he experienced the same discrimination against his color. Baldwin discusses how he is fighting against himself and the hatred in his