Brent Staples' Experience as a Young Black Person in America

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Analysis of “BLACK MEN and PUBLIC SPACE” by Brent Staples
The essay is about the discrimination and prejudice that black men are subjected to in public places. Generally racism on black people has existed for ages and men in the whites dominated societies suffer the most. Essentially the preexisting image in the mind of a white person especially a woman is that every black man is a thief, murderer or rapist. This paper will analyses the essay by Brent about his experience as a young black person in America.
Brent went through various racist encounters when working in the city. Despite being innocent and working hard make a living, the white people had already made conclusions that blacks were not to be trusted. In one case a woman ran away from him just after seeing him walking behind her at night wi...