Just Walk On By Brent Staples Analysis

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After reading “Just Walk on By” by Brent Staples I found it to be a very interesting essay. Brent Staples have a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Chicago , which is one of the top College’s in America so Staples has a good understanding of how people think. In the essay Staples talks about how a Black Man could be viewed walking down the street late at night which he would be viewed differently than a White Man. The essay also talks about how a Black Man could be viewed as a Mugger, Rapist, or killer and how being view as these characters that people fear can put them in dangerous with police where Staples say “fear and weapons meet-and they often do in urban America- there is always the possibility of death. In the essay Staples

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