In “Just Walk on By” the author‚ Brent Staples‚ uses his real life experiences and gives a great explanation to how the blacks were mistreated during his lifetime. The stories that he tells in this article take place during the center of the Civil Rights Movement. He gives us several stories in this article of situations that he was put in. The first paragraph of his article really grabs the reader’s attention. He starts off with “My first victim was a woman white‚ well-dressed probably in her early
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In “Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power To Alter Public Space‚” Brent Staples discusses the development of standard stereotypes that can not just affect the actions of the victim‚ but the suspect. Throughout the essay‚ Staples describes himself in a sequence of events‚ and proceeds to tell the readers how people around him react. Brent Staples was a tall black man and always faced the same reaction when walking the streets during his late night strolls. People that were walking late as
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In “Just Walk on By” by Brent Staples he discusses his personal experiences with the all too familiar idea’s that white people‚ specifically women‚ have about black men. “To her‚ the youngish black man- a broad six feet two inches with a beard and billowing hair‚ both hands shoved into the pockets on a bulky military jacket- seemed menacingly close. After a few more quick glances‚ she picked up her pace and was soon running in earnest.” This was how Staples described his experience with his first
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lock their doors. Staple’s word choice with using “Hammering‚” rather than than just saying that the people locked their doors‚ really exemplifies the amount of fear in the “Victims‚” just because he walks in front of their car when crossing the street. This quote is deemed important mainly because it shows the true colors of non-blacks in the mid- to late 1900s‚ as not trusting blacks or even giving them a chance. Just by the fact that the people felt the need to lock their car because he was crossing
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in their car‚ where most people think they are safe‚ they still feel the need to lock their doors. It is absurd that during his nightly walk people thought that he was so dangerous that their was a possibility that he would rob their car. This quote is deemed important mainly because the true colors of society bleed out and are exposed for everyone to see. Just by the fact that the people felt the need to lock their car because he was crossing the street in front of them‚ it can be implied that
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In the history of literature there have been a lot of notable characters with certain traits or qualities that stand out. The reader often relates to these characters‚ whether they are real people or fictitious. In Brent Staples’s essay “Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space‚” I can relate to Brent Staple himself as he write his essay. I am able to relate to Brent Staple because of the sorrow he feels by racial profiling. Racial profiling is a major problem not only in the United States‚ but
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Morgan Allen Ms. Mayo ENG 101-1035 30 October 2012 Just Walk on By In Brent Staples’ essay‚ “Just Walk on By” the author describes his experiences‚ feelings‚ and reactions towards the discrimination he has faced throughout his life as a black man. Staples describes several different personal experiences of when he felt that he had been judged or discriminated against by other people based on the color of his skin and how that contributed to his overall appearance. Staples has continuously been
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Juan Lopez R. Fitzgerald GEW 101 02 March 2017 Title of Paper 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
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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
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Valeria Blanco Dr. Lynn Fauth English 101 20 January 2011 Just Walk on By In the essay Just walk on by‚ author Brent Staples shares his experiences of living with the prejudged notion that he is someone to be feared because he is different from his peers. Brent Staples grew up in the small town of Chester‚ Pennsylvania where he was an outsider. He caught on to something that most of his friends probably had never thought about before or even felt that they had the right to think about
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