Sep 21, 2008

Black Men And Public Space(Yingshan Hu)

“Women are particularly vulnerable to street violence, and young black males are drastically overrepresented among the perpetrators of that violence.”

This quote is from the article "Black Men And Public Space".Generally, women are effeminate. If let a woman to fight with a man, I think everybody can know the result, except the woman is a strong woman or she knows Kung Fu. So I very agree with this sentence “Women are particularly vulnerable to street violence.”Women have to know how to protect by themselves.
I read news online and newspapers, I found a lot of crimes were happened because of blacks. I know some blacks are poor; they don’t have any good ways to earn money, they across crime to gain something valuable.

1 comment:

Leslie said...

Image what the woman's description would be about that night (Leslie)

I tried to image what the woman would say about that night to her friends or family. She must mention that a big black guy was following her either for money or something else.

The woman was defintely not the person to be blamed since she was more scared than any of others. We may just let it go as another common experience, or another case of black perpetrators portrayed on TV news or headline news. But there is defintely something wrong, but we just couldn't pin it down. That's depressing.

Language problem:
1. " I found a lot of crimes were happenend because of blacks"--> I found a lot of crimes were really committed by blacks.
2. "They across crime to gain something valuable" --> They gained something valuable through illegal conducts.