Brent Staples

Journalist, Brent Staples, in his personal narrative, “Black Men and Public Space,” emphasizes being discriminated against for the color of his skin. Staples’ purpose was to describe that people often misjudge others because of their race or gender and wants to promote emotional consequences that could arise from this . He adopts a lonely and…

In 2015, one day, I was in the middle of my shift while a driver of a semi-truck knocked on the backdoor of our store to deliver some merchandise that we ordered from Michigan. The driver of the truck was an old man born and raised in Michigan and has never dealt with Somalis, and…