Black Men and Public Space

Black Men and Public Space

In Black Men and Public Spaces, Brent Staples explains how it took him almost 22 years to identify that black people were a part of discriminatory and stereotypical world. Brent Staple has made himself the main character of this essay, so, he talks about his personal experience, which is universal representation of the “black experience”. The essay title is sarcastic as public space is apparently available for all individuals, however from social perspective, which does not seem to be that way for black people, even in today's word.

We live in a culturally diverse society. In this essay, Brent Staples explains the discrimination that most black men experience on various occasions in their lives. Many black men are being considered as criminals just on the basis of their skin color. In this essay, Brent Staples admits racial issue in the African American race. In many parts of this essay, Brent demonstrates a situation where he is classified as offender based on his outer appearance. In this essay, Staples has very well presented his point of view regarding the misjudged and misunderstood (Staples, 195).

Brent Staple grabs the attention of readers by declaring that his first victim was a white lady. For doing so, he has made use of irony in order to set the definite tone of paper. In fact, he is the victim of biasness. With the use of word “victim”, Brent has accepted the public perception that he is perpetrator. With obvious disregard, he comes to understand the “unwieldy inheritance” of being born into a race with the needless skill to alter public space. At this time in his life, he hate what he was born into as he is fed up of people classifying him as rapist, mugger and any other offender acts, without even knowing what in actual he is (Staples, 195).

Brent considered himself as a soft and gentle guy, and he feels disgusted when individuals typecast him in this label. The first year that Brent spent away from his house, at the University of Chicago, he says that started to identify the language of fear. In essay, by saying language of fear, he is not referring to really speaking it, however behavior that is conversed with body language. This behavior is communicated when Brent crosses the road and hears door locking sound by driver as soon ...