Brent Staples' Describes Discrimination of Black Men Through his Writing

Moved by fear and ignorance, racial discrimination eroded the hearts of people throughout history. In the mid 1970s, Brent Staples discovered that this prejudice against blacks only appeared publicly. Staples wrote an article stating that he can not even walk as usual, people, especially women, will deviate from him because of terrorism. Through his narrative structure, detail selection and language manipulation, Staples showed his understanding of this terrible discrimination.

In a short article, Brent Staples 'Black Men in Public Space' discusses his own stereotype as he is an African American. It seems to be awful in "Public place" (Staples 225). Staples, a smart man, is a graduate student at the University of Chicago. His skin is complicated, he is not treated fairly and is always discriminated. On his usual walk in the evening, he met a white woman. - Moved by fear and ignorance, racial discrimination eroded the hearts of people throughout history. In the mid 1970s, Brent Staples discovered that this prejudice against blacks only appeared publicly. Staples wrote an article wrote that he can not even walk as usual.

In this short story 'Black in the public space', Brent Staples talks about his many encounters with those who portray him as a criminal, especially a white woman. Staples said he was his first encounter in his early twenties, "my first victim was a white woman," and she said he was walking late behind her I saw this terrible facial expression on her face, he is a young black man, so she thinks he will hurt him. Staples keeps saying that she is afraid of fear of him because he does not hurt animals. He soon realized he was a young black man, and if he appeared in the wrong place at the wrong time, very intense things might happen, so at night the street in Chicago Walking may be bad for him. Except for scary people due to skin color, he seemed to have been killed without any reason