Just Walk on By essays
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Consider the story of Mary Campbell, a young ten-year-old girl with red hair and freckles, who someday was caring for her neighbor's children in Western Pennsylvania only to.PLOP! Be kidnapped by natives and adopted into their families for the next six years. Although there was evidence that she lived a happy life with her Indian tribe, her story became a cautionary tale that planted hatred of natives in the hearts of Europeans, Therefore, leading to a massive racial genocide that...
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Brent Staples, a journalist, in his essay ‘Just Walk On By’ explained through a personal story the perspective of how the American society has viewed and treated its African American male population. Society has put a negative label on African American men, they have been viewed constantly as a threat, and they also have been racially profiled more often than we think we actually know of or even acknowledge. There are a lot of barriers that come with wanting to...
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Many minor communities are subjected to racism and discrimination but what exactly does racism refer to? Racism is the discrimination in order to add categories and show superiority among people of different phenotypic traits or believes and social standings. To understand about racism, one first has to divulge in the nature of racism. It is usually assumed that racism has been a part of civilization since civilization started, that it is embedded into how people work and no matter what,...
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According to a 2014 study, 73 percent of all arrestees in the United States were males. This number increases to a whopping 80 percent when accounting for violent crimes. Brent Staples outlines the tendencies of his friends and relatives to become ‘thugs’ in his essay ‘Just Walk on By’. He attributes this trend to the idea of the ‘male romance with the power to intimidate’. To understand what is meant by this statement, we must first explore masculinity itself. What...
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