Examples Of Black Men In Public Space By Brent Staples

Keegan Goetz
Ms. Emily
EN 211
21, February 2018
Black Men and Public Space by: Brent Staples Race is and will always be something that brings out numerous views, emotions and thoughts. Unfortunately some of these thoughts and views aren’t always good and don’t represent equality. To this day and many years before this, human beings have always been judged and discriminated upon things such as skin color, Birthplace, and gender. Throughout history these human beings specifically black men and women have risen above this and achieved many different levels of success in sports, writing, politics, acting, and numerous other things. despite all of the achievements and qualifications black men have gained in life, Racism is still present. In Brent Staples’ Black Men

in psychology from the University of Chicago, later becoming a journalist and finding himself moving to New York and being hired by the New York Times as a editor. Growing up in Pennsylvania the big realizing point for him wasn't until he got to the University of Chicago where he would witness several incidences of racial discrimination that led him to write various articles and books. Staples uses many examples to show that even with all the hard work and progress black men have made to be successful in life, many white americans will still jump to conclusions and still discriminate. Racism is still alive and still happening in the modern society. Staples focuses on this practice so the public can take charge and eliminate it from society. He completes his goal by using rhetoric appeals. By sympathizing with his fellow victims he appeals to ethos. He provides interesting historical facts about his background such as his doctorate in psychology, his time as a journalist, as well as using metaphors and good analogies to appeal to logos. By using creative word choices and good imagery to describe his first hand accounts he is able to draw the audiences