Just Walk on
Published on Jan 08, 2016
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Brent Staple's Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space
By: Tierra Hyatt
Speaker
- Brent Staples: An African-American journalist
- Point of View: Its a problem that people are profiled and feared by what race they are. He shows this by using examples of his own life experiences with being profiled as something he wasn't just because he was a black man.
- Evidence:My first victim was a women- white, well dressed, probably in her twenties.....She cast back a worried glance.... A few more glimps she picked up her pace and was soon running in earnest."
Occasion
- This was placed back in the 1960's through 1980's when he was a young man and blacks were still at a major disadvantage.
Audience
- Brent Staples made this for many audiences.
- Black People: They can relate to his stories and be moved by how he handles it
- White people: Can see how hard it is to be a black man and change their prospective based on the kind of person blacks really are.
- This is for all ages and genders because everybody can relate to being prejudged somehow in some kind of way.
Purpose
- He made this to show and explain how black men deal with stereotypes and being prejudged everyday. He was a softy but people (White) would see him like that.
- Evidence: "I grew up one of the good boys,had perhaps a half a dozen fistfights. In retrospect, my shyness of combat has clear sources."
Subject
- This article is about Brent being a black male and having to undergo all of the things such as being prejudged, stereotyped, assults by policemen, ect.
- Evidence: "To her, the youngish black man- a broad six feet two inches with a beard and billowing hair, both hands shoved into the pockets of a bulky military jacket- seemed menacingly close."
