'Black men and public places Essay\r'

'In the short story Black workforce and general Spaces by Brent Staples, the writer goes through a battle of being experienceed as other â€Å"Black work force” in fellowship such as perpetrators of emphasis. Although he felt fierce as he state on pg.316, â€Å"Over the years, I learned to pickle the rage I felt at so often being taken for a whitlow”. He begins to understand why hoi polloi, mainly cleaning woman fear him so much.\r\nThis is because as he states â€Å"I understand of course that the danger they perceive is not a hallucination. Wowork force are particularly vulnerable to pathway violence, and young black males are drastically overrepresented among the perpetrators of that violence”. Since the writer understands why people fear him, he tries to convince himself so people’s opinion and perception of black men also mixed bag.\r\nAt this point I strongly disagree with the writer, because I believe you are who you are and you sh ould not change some(prenominal)thing about yourself to be accepted in society. In some ways I can touch on with the writer in his struggle, because as a Moslem in the 21st Century some Americans take up Muslims as terrorist due to ignorance, stereotype, and because of the tragedy that extremist of the piety caused which made the twin towers collapse and ended with thousands of civilians losing their lives.\r\nAlthough people who look the corresponding, come from the same culture or religion doesn’t mean that they are the same nor act the same. The short story Black Men and Public Places begins with him walking behind a woman on a seemingly scary street. however because he was a black male, tall, and had his hands shoved in his pocket it made him look suspicious.\r\nThe stereotypical perception of black men caused the women to speed up, and stilltually pull up stakes running. In this case this black male was exculpatory and meant no harm, but because of the way soci ety take care black men it caused her to be fearful of him. single day as I was walking from a pertinacious day of being in Moslem school I had on hijab (head scarf) and a long robe.\r\nA man yelled â€Å"TERRORIST where is your bomb?!” I immediately public opinion how can people be so shallow to think just because I had on a hijab I was automatically seek to be a terrorist. But it all goes keystone to the stereotypes that society puts on a certain unravel or culture due to what a few people in those in those categories do. Although the writer feels enraged deep inside, he understands why people view him as a threat, and its because of the many black men involved in crime. So he begins to change himself to make him look less scary, and less of a suspect.\r\nHe says on Pg.316 â€Å"I whistle melodies from van Beethoven and Vivaldi and more classical composers. Even steely rude(a) Yorkers hunching toward night time destinations seem to relax, and occasionally they eve n join in tune.\r\nVirtually everybody seems to sense that a mugger wouldn’t be warbling bright, sunny selections from Vivaldi’s foursome Seasons”. My question to the writer is why should anyone act any different from normal due to societies opinion?. Although it may feel more comfortable there should be no reason to interchange what you do in your quotidian life to satisfy the people near you. To sum things up, the writer Black Men and Public Places though changing what you do in your everyday life can help satisfy society solely to be accepted by people. I have been in a situation in which I was judged and stereotyped about being what I am, but I never once thought in what way can I alter myself so that society may appreciate me, and portion out me as an equal.\r\n'