Being Black

1)In the essay Black Men and Public Space the author Brent Staples didn't clearly state the thesis in my opinion but if it was my essay my thesis would be, even though this is the land of the free being a black male in America can still make people uncomfortable in their own space. 2) Staples first found out that people were just judging him by the way he looked when he was a graduate student going to the University of Chicago, after he learned this he was embarrassed, surprised, and in dismay. He even stated that it made him feel like an accomplice in tyranny. 3) Throughout the essay Staples only gave a couple of occasions where he was in evident danger. One of the those times was when he was working as a journalist in Chicago and he had a deadline and was mistaken for a burglar and the manager called security. The other incident happened when he was killing time before he went to get a story so he decided to stop by a jewelry store and henwent in and she(jeweler) went and got her guard dog and would not answer any of his questions. He handled the dangers by just smothering it because without that he said "it would be madness." 4) Learning from his earlier encounters Staples now take certain precautions to prevent feeling isolated, those methods are whistling Beethoven and Vivaldi and more classical composers, or if people are going into the same door he is and he is trailing he will keep going and let them go ahead in instead of coming in immediately after them. According to him(Staples) that works because the impression of a mugger, rapist, or even something more serious whistling a joyful tune doesn't seem to co-exist. Racial profiling reveals that between the human race we as a whole see each other as different species. In my eyes when we profile people we isolate a the person being profiled. We are suppose to have and high intelligence but how we treat each other I couldn't tell. I have been profiled and it shows pure ignorance, and until we rid it in our society then we will continue to have incidents like the trayvon Martin, Rodney King and like the case of William H. Parker who was gunned down even while trying to comply with police officers. In our society right now racism is on the fall but profiling is becoming more evident. After 911 the Middle Easterners are starting to get the same treatment African Americans have been receiving for years in this country. That part of the reasons our country is going backwards instead if forward. Once upon a time America the land of the free the place to be is now become a nightmare and societial joke. It goes to show the less interaction a person has with the opposite race they are more susceptible to profiling of some sort. Unless a person deal with the opposite on a daily base then all of the superstition and stero types will disappear.