Victims of Prejudice

Everywhere we go, we see people who experience prejudice from other people. Prejudice is an act of injustice toward other people based on stereotypes and other unreliable data. It creates embarrassment, hate, and fear to some people everyday. In this modern-day and age, it is unbelievable to think that people still suffer from the ignorance of prejudice. Through these articles “Black Men and Public Space,” by Brent Staples and “Occupied Los Angeles: Eviction,” by James Butler it becomes clear that prejudice brings negative feelings to the hearts of the victims, that cause them to fear and to hate.

I strongly agree that the author, Brent Staples has faced prejudice because he is a black male walking in a street late at night. Some people are prejudiced because of the color of a person’s skin. In the article “Black Men and Public Space,” Brent Staples argued, “My first victim was a woman white, well dressed, probably in her late twenties . . . I swung onto the Avenue behind her, there seemed to be a discrete, inflammatory distance between us. It was not so. She cast back a worried glance. To her, the youngish black man-a broad six feet two inches with a beard and billowing hair, both hands shoved into the pockets of a bulky military jacket-seemed menacingly close. After a few more quick glimpses, she picked up her pace and was soon running in earnest. Within seconds, she disappeared into a cross street.” This passage clearly shows an act of prejudice. Although the author is an educated black male, still a young white woman immediately assumed that every black male who walks in a nice neighborhood late at night, could be dangerous.

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...e quickly pass me and close the entrance door, and return standing where she were to look at me. I was surprise, embarrass, and furious at the same time. Although, I am a well-dressed and professional black woman, a family that I come often to support their small business, prejudge me because of the color of my skin.

I believe that it is time the Law should do something about the discrimination and the injustice that exist among people. The prejudice that some people still experience in everyday life, cause them to fear and hate. In a modern life where every race live and work together as one big family, no one should have to worry about prejudice. For that reason, the government officials should interpret the human right law as written, not to go around it, so that people are free to exercise their right as citizen without persecution and prejudgment.