In “Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space”, Brent Staples explains the impact he has on other people just for being an African American man. Writing for an audience of black men who have experienced discrimination. With a wise, inoffensive voice, but somewhat of a neutral tone, the author uses figurative language, writing techniques and diction to explain his purpose of writing this essay to explain to his readers of his past experience of being a black man in public places and the effect it has caused in his life.…
Just Walk On By In 1986, a 35 year old Brent Staples published Black Men and Public Spaces in Ms. Magazine. Through several personal experiences and analysis he discusses the causes and effects of the dangerous perception of black men. Displaying both perspectives of a white peoples’ fears, and a black man’s reaction, his essay opened the discussion for greater understanding. More importantly he reveals the mutual danger when “fear and weapons meet and they often do in urban America”, the “possibility of death” is likely for either side.…
1. Hypothesis: If a school age person goes to Starbucks, then they will order an iced drink.…
In Chapter 3 “Tools of the Mind”, by Nicholas Carr describes the development of maps, clocks and other innovative advancements through the years and how it has changed the way we communicate with each other. Scientific technology has affected the progress of society and improved the history of individual’s awareness. However, with modern technologies individuals are continuing to learn and progress with the present-day innovations. At the beginning of the chapter Carr describes the drawings and creativity of a child and how she is inspired by her art and later became a surveyor. Maps can influence logical and cognitive abilities.…
Upon his continued research of the city it seemed that no matter where he looked, read, listened, or just happened upon, race, racism or racist seems to rear its ugly head and usually in the political arena (Sugg, 2008). Turning on the television to watch the nightly news, listening to the bashing of the Mayor of the city and Commissioners of the different counties calling their undercover research journalism making sure that the views are interpreted as such instead of the backdoor racism most of the African-American would see it as, more so, because the individuals being criticized and ridiculed are African-American working hard to make a change in the city of Atlanta and yet still being held accountable for the color of their skin.…
Journalist, Brent Staples, in his narrative essay, “Just Walk on By: Black Man and Public Space” narrates a series of events when he was growing up. Staples purpose is to tell personal stories in chronological order of how he was viewed by society. Other people convey the idea of a black man as a dangerous man in society. By the work of other people stereotypes. He adopts a fearful but apathetic tone in order to appeal to what he is feeling by applying a set of rhetorical devices in his narrative essay to his readers.…
Today, the number of deaths including black people in custody has continued and black people are disproportionally stopped and searched on streets. After the case of Macpherson life for the black community was expected to change, however to some it is known that the changes have been extremely disappointing. Black people feel they are less likely to get a decent job, they feel they are treated disproportionally by police, by being stopped and searched and within communities (Janet et al,…
From all the discussions in class about racism and the different examples we have learned from, an article that really stood out to me was regarding the Trayvon Martin Case. I chose this specific article because it really outlines the aspect of racism in our country. Although America is based on the anthem “land of the free, and home of the brave”, some ethnic groups are not as “free” as others.…
Cited: in Jones, "The Impairment of Empathy in Goodwill Whites for African Americans," p. 75. As she notes, her analysis is based on Joe R. Feagin, HernanVera, and Pinar Batur, White Racism, 2nd ed. (New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 117-151, especially pp. 141-142. (It should also be noted that the white professorof law quoted was sharplycriticalof his own here, David B. Oppenheimer, responsesto these images. His position is actuallyconsistent with the one I outline. See his "TheMovementfrom Sympathy to Empathy, Through Fear; The Beatings of Rodney King and Reginald Denny Provoke Differing Emotions but SimilarRacial Concerns,"TheRecorderJune9 (1992): 14.) 44. See AlexanderNehamas, TheArt of Living: Socratic Reflectionsfrom Plato to Foucault (Universityof California Press, 1998), especially pp. 40, 106, 185-188. 45. Noel Carroll, "InterpretingCitizen Kane," Persistence of Vision7 (1989): 51-61, reprintedin Interpretingthe Moving Image (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 163. 46. For discussion of philosophy 's capacities and whether film can mimic them, see Stephen Mulhall, On Film (New York: Routledge, 2002), especially pp. 1-10; Julian Baggini, "Alien Ways of Thinking: Mulhall 's On Film," Film-Philosophy 7 (2003), available at ; Mulhall, "Ways of Thinking: A Response to Andersen and Baggini," Film-Philosophy 7 (2003), available at . www.film-philosophy.com/vol7-2003/n25 47. An early version of this work was presented at the "Narration, Imagination,and Emotionin the Moving Image Media" conference sponsored by the Center for the Cognitive Study of the Moving Image, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, July 24, 2004. I thank audience members there, especially Lester Hunt, Amy Coplan, and Katherine Thomson-Jones,for comments and encouragement.I also for thankSusan Kollin, MurraySmith,and Tom Wartenberg readingand commentingon earlierversions of this essay.…
can do to help eliminate black on black crime is to cut out the stereotypes and false images of…
We live in a judgmental world; believe it or not that’s just how it is. People are going to judge you before even knowing you and what your intentions are. Brent Staples, who is an African American, experiences the moment of feeling like a threat to women and people based on his color of skin and the way he is dressed. Almost all black men in today’s generation are likely to be suspects or looked at as a criminals or dangers to people. This is due to the fact that colored people are usually the race that’s being placed under arrest. It is correct that colored men have the highest criminal rate, but not all colored men should be distinguished as criminals for the actions of their race. In the essay “Black Men and Public Space,” by author Brent Staples, he uses ethos, pathos, and logos to persuade his of the prejudiced nature of our society.…
Lastly, In “Black Men and Public Space,” Brent Staples shares his point of view of being an African-American male everyday in Brooklyn. Staples speaks on many experiences where people viewed him as dangerous due to the color of his skin. He opens my eyes to the way people may act around black men as opposed to other races. "And I soon gathered that being perceived as dangerous is a hazard in itself" (299). Staples shows that it's not only unfair but also dangerous to the people. But a limitation is not all races perceive black people like…
Because of this, minorities are becoming angry that people are able to get away with reporting false crimes based on racial profiling. This allows them to feel harassed and violated because they are not able to live freely without the fear of being arrested over wrong accusations. This connects with the argument that racial profiling must gain notice and be stopped because people believe it is okay for them to take advantage of people. This shows how society creates an image that black people are aggressive and commit crimes. People should realize this…
“Blacks are presumed to be up to no good, to be no good. Black lives are flippantly extinguished, not least by cops, by state representatives, by law and order” (David Goldberg). As days go by blacks will always be looked down on, the lack of respect that is showed by authority and courtrooms are ridiculous. The law enforcement thinks killing, hurting, and brutality beating blacks will get them to stop acting in a disrespectful manner. In order for police officers to have the respect from blacks they must treat them with the same respect. Movement focuses on the fact that black citizens have long been far more likely than whites to die at the hands of the police, and is of a piece with this history. Black people have endured for struggles then white people. The lack of indisputable acts towards blacks does not democrat who they are as people. the lives of black citizen in this country has a historical background to why blacks act a certain way. Blacks have been discounted, Misunderstood, and understandably uncomfortable with their skin because they are living in fear that police officers will take there life away from them at any second. Being in a world where black will never gain the respect for police is hard to live by. typically African Americans fear for what the future will look like. As time goes by police do not notices how many lives they have taken from the black community. To see that racial discrimination is continuing through generation after generation is hard to deal with. As blacks want to be able to lend cops there trust, it's kind of hard if police officers are just going around killing blacks for the pleasure and feeling some type of towards their action and the percussion that they have to make. As young black lives are being taken, and more are…
Everybody has been taught to hate black, whether its black ice, a black cat, or black plague to the black sheep, the verdict is already been handed down, everything black is bad. That’s what history has told the world. From the days of old, to modern times, black has been associated with death, wrong, or misfortune. So it’s no wonder that in today’s society we associate everything bad with black. From a walk in the park, to a drive down the lakefront to quiet bonding with family, those peaceful and contempt situations can be upheaved in an instant by crime, and for those thought to be the perpetrators, there’s the constant threat of harassment. But although those serene moments can be disturbed by…