Baldwin and Staple

In Baldwin’s essay he gives a sense of his understanding of how racism spreads and the effects it has had. Baldwin realizes that Americans first looked down upon blacks and that this belief has spread worldwide and things will never be the same between blacks and whites. Staple shows the prejudice made against him here in America and how he his viewed and prejudge based on his skin color and appearance. He shared that these were things that he was going to live with and these prejudices were based on fears from previous experiences or from what they herd. What was different from Baldwin and Staple is that Staple changed the way he did things to avoid and cope with his prejudices. Staple seemed to just live with and understand why things were which Staple seemed to understand but change. Baldwin wrote his essay for the town where he lived in Switzerland, and he wrote about how the people in the town treated him so he seemed to direct more of his attention to America. He blamed America more than the people in his town. Staple was writing for a women’s magazine and most of the readers where white women. He wrote about his prejudices he received from white women and white people in general, so his listeners where the ones making the prejudices and they had to read about them so he had to be careful and informative at the same time.