Black Men Stereotypes

People may ask “Why are there stereotypes.” People are stereotype based on common knowledge of that type of person. Some blacks are stereotyped as criminals and old people are stereotyped as unable to do most physical labor and for this reason may lose a job to a younger less experience person. In this sense many people are stereotyped in the wrong way, this is because rarely does everyone fit all parts of a stereotype. As stated in (Hinton, 2000) young black men that are a witness to a crime are treated as a criminal instead of a witness in some cases or that middle aged experienced men are not hired over young inexperienced men. Stereotypes classify people based of off other people in that same group. Many people do not fit all parts …show more content…
This use of stereotypes in media makes it more excess able to find certain stereotypes. Such as that the cops are corrupt because they are shooting innocent black men. When things extreme as this happen it is broadcasted all over the news and social media. Making a generalization of this nature is wrong, when including the word all or say that a group in general is “this”, this is an overgeneralization. Not all parts of the group are the same, there may be similar people in this group of people, but not all of this group take the same actions as everyone else in the group. A more correct statement will include the words most or some. Another way stereotypes do not always work is based on race. Sometimes people tend to base how people behave based on which race they are from. Many people may say that black people are always getting in trouble with the law or doing suspicious activities. There is a problem with this statement though, the exceptions to this statement. There are the part of the law enforcement that is a part of the black community, also there are wealthy black people who work for the government as well. Once again making a generalized statement most of the time is to overgeneralized or