The woman was scared upon seeing them. There is nothing to do with skin color but prejudices are always the root of racial tension. Ironically they were criminals and carjacked Brendan Fraser and Sandra Bullock’s car. Another racial discrimination happened when locksmith Michael Peña was changing the door in Brendan Fraser and Sandra Bullock’s home. Since she was upset by the carjacking, she noticed Michael Peña is a Mexican-American with tattoos on his arm, the first vision she had made was gang tattoos.
Once they got home and were having the locks changed, Jean became immediately angry they sent a “gang member” and wanted the locks changed in the morning. Because of his appearance, which consisted of a shaved head, “prison” tattoos and pants hanging off his butt, she was positive he would go sell the keys to his “amigos.” These somewhat inaccurate stereotypes by Jean were supported from historical and socially constructed events. Since most men who are imprisoned are African American, to Jean and other members of society, this means all black men are criminals and one must be fearful of them. As for the Mexican locksmith, he must be a part of a gang and looking for trouble if he has tattoos and his pants
Whenever people see a black male they get nervous because all there stereotypes. The stereotyping of black men have been seen as rapists, and muggers. "In that first year, my first away from my hometown, I was become thoroughly familiar with the language of fear". A lot of the times, he was victim of being stereotyped. He was mistaken for a burglar when rushing into the office of a magazine where he was writing for.
In the first scene, an upset, white; Officer Ryan pulls over a Lincoln Navigator thinking he saw a white woman performing a lewd act on the black driver. Although Ryan’s suspicions were partly correct, Christine turns out to be an attractive light skinned black woman. Having to follow through with his inquiry, Officer Ryan asks the two to step out of the vehicle. Christine having had a few drinks gets a little mouthy with the officer as he’s patting down her black husband. Asking his partner for assistance Ryan then starts to perform a very intimate pat down on her, sliding his hands up her loose fitting dress asking if she concealing any weapons.
Samuels’s innocence is corrupted when he becomes in contact with the city life and crime. When the corrupted policemen’s are looking for book in the Amish world they find obstacles. When John book moves to the Amish world and falls in love with Rachel, he faces many problems and suffers from confection because he knows he doesn’t belong there. We are shown that Samuel is in conflict with the world around him when he enters the city of Philadelphia and loses his innocent when he witnesses a murder at the train station. The director shows this by the sounds and angles of the camera during scenes and by the way many people talk at once shows the differences of life between the city and the peacefulness of Samuels home.
He is almost completely shunned from the town because he is trying to help a black man accused of rape. Mayella had told Tom, “I said come here, nigger, and bust up this chiffarobe for me, I gotta nickel for you.” (p.241) She had tricked him to coming over to her. Then that’s about the time when she accuses him of rape. He had felt sorry for her, which is why he was falsely accused in the first place. Courthouse segregation was one of the biggest bits of racism I found in this book.
In due course, we see the conflict increase to the point that one man feels his only alternative is armed retaliation against the other. The conflict begins as Daniel responds to a locksmith call at Farhad’s shop. Daniel replaces a broken lock on the shop’s back door, but tries to explain to Farhad that the door itself is the problem, not the lock. Farhad’s English is not fluent, and he does not understand Daniel to begin with, but decides after interpreting Daniel’s warning about the lock that Daniel is trying to cheat him. The encounter becomes a heated argument as Farhad refuses to pay for a door not fixed while Daniel explains that he only fixes locks, not doors.
When she and her husband end up being held at gunpoint shortly after and get their car stolen, a spiral effect is created in her mind and her ethnocentrism grows immensely, making her believe that all cultures different from hers are on a lower level. After this incident, Jean wants her locks changed, and the locksmith is Hispanic. She quickly assumes that since he is Hispanic and has tattoos that he must be in a gang and he will probably Dodson 2 make copies of her keys and give them to his gang members. Racism, prejudice, and stereotyping are all evident in this situation, by Jean’s quick categorization before having met this man. She also demonstrates her prejudice beliefs by the way she
Thao has been coerced to partake into his cousin’s gang. The gang forces Thao to steal Walt’s Gran Torino. Once Walt finds Thao in his garage trying to steal his Gran Torino, he knows that something has gone wrong with Thao. At this point, the drama in the story soars, as Walt begins his personal quest to protect Thao. Walt tries his best not to reveal that he has a caring soul but that he is an angry and grumpy old man.
Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space Brent Staples employs onomatopoeia to describe the black man who “could cross in front of a car stopped at a traffic light and elicit the thunk, thunk, thunk, thunk of the driver - black, white, male, or female - hammering down on the door locks.” The onomatopoeia and cacophony of “thunk” creates a harsh tone. It describes the widespread prejudice, even within his own race. Staples repeats the “thunk” four times, one for each person aside a door, thus the profiling is so common that not one person in the full car would hesitate to lock the door. The second essay uses “thunk” to express how easily he could incite fear in the inhabitants, a fear in which he took pride.