Summary Of Just Walk On By Brent Staples
Idania Ortiz
Profesor Gaskin
English 101- Ao6
October 01, 2017
Summary Of Just Walk On by
In the essay “ Just Walk By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space,” Brent Staples shows on how throughout his life, people have discrimination against him because he's tall, and he is a journalist in a predominantly white field. For example, he started to seen how much appearance scared others, in particular a white women, he use to take late nights walks as a graduate a student. He understand that we live in a world with a lot of violence and dangerous, he feels frustrated that black men in particular are still being judged and misjudged base on their appearance. For instance, he mentions two instance where he was mistaken for
a burglar and a fellow journalist mas mistaken for a killer. This incidents are not uncommon. In other to deal with other people point of view, Staples says that now whenever he wants to take a late night walk, he whistles Classic Music as a way that he is showing to others that he is not a threat to them. His whistling, he concludes, permit other to see him for who he really is, a cultured and sensitive man.
Profesor Gaskin
English 101- Ao6
October 01, 2017
Summary Of Just Walk On by
In the essay “ Just Walk By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space,” Brent Staples shows on how throughout his life, people have discrimination against him because he's tall, and he is a journalist in a predominantly white field. For example, he started to seen how much appearance scared others, in particular a white women, he use to take late nights walks as a graduate a student. He understand that we live in a world with a lot of violence and dangerous, he feels frustrated that black men in particular are still being judged and misjudged base on their appearance. For instance, he mentions two instance where he was mistaken for
a burglar and a fellow journalist mas mistaken for a killer. This incidents are not uncommon. In other to deal with other people point of view, Staples says that now whenever he wants to take a late night walk, he whistles Classic Music as a way that he is showing to others that he is not a threat to them. His whistling, he concludes, permit other to see him for who he really is, a cultured and sensitive man.