The one of the focuses of the film is to convey to its audience that living in the ghetto, like south central los angeles, is an unbelievably tough, but some people don't know what its like to live there. Killings, robberies, rapes and other acts of violence go undetected as certain cities tear america apart. This being said, writer and director John Singleton, wanted to expose the hostility of the Urban areas to society and shed some light on what black people were going through at that time period. Another focus was the absence of strong fatherly role models. Tre's father, portrayed by Lawrence Fishburn, is really the only father depicted in the neighborhood.
The narrator’s environment reveals the despair in being an African American. The narrator thinks of his brother saying “He had been picked up, the evening before, in a raid on an apartment down-town, for peddling and using heroin.” This is already a sad fact. When someone has to turn to illegal crimes it shows a major issue. To make matters worse the narrator states “these boys (his students), now, were living as we'd been living then.” The state and condition that led to Sonny to a life of drugs and crime isn’t unique. In fact it is almost perpetual to all in the community.
Shortly after grieving for the loss of his daughter’s innocence, Carl Lee seeks counsel with the lawyer Jake Brigance. They discuss a similar case where four white men raped a black girl and were set free. Knowing that that these two men could more than likely walk free, Carl Lee takes justice into his own hands and shoots both men down including his childhood friend deputy Dwayne Looney. Carl Lee is immediately arrested and put on trial for the murder of the two white men. As the story continues, Carl Lee hires on Jake Brigance who valiantly accepts the case knowing the dangers and challenges involved in obtaining it.
Power to the People - Thoughts on the Black Panther Party and Black Power Movement. During the civil rights movement, local whites harassed the peaceful and non-violent marchers while the police turned a blind eye and arrested the activists as troublemakers. This trend was becoming too much and what they needed was some form of liberation, that came through the agile activities of Stokely Carmichael and the Black Panther Party. Following the influence of Malcom X towards the end of his life, the Black Panthers Party was formed to protect local communities from police brutality and racism. It was not all about violence as most people relate the group to.
This movie reveals a sign of regress of our society because, most lynching incidents in America which occurred in public spaces and were usually the result of rape allegations involving black male supposedly assailants and white women who were purportedly their victims has not been seeing as a pure act of cruelty and hated from white supremacist calling for “justice”. A proof of this is that today, the noose appears in secluded areas such as school grounds and workplaces (Hyde Turner tragedy at work Conrald, Texas) as a result of racial tension in the U.S. Years after the Civil Right Movement, the battle for respect among all people regardless of the color of their skins and the end of racist organization or movement is far from over. A change has been operated but it is not enough to prevent such actions in the first democratic country of the world. In my opinion, the fact CNN host Kyra Phillips emphasize the importance that “youth people understand the horrors of the noose.” shows that American youth today are more sensitive about racial violence than previous generations of Americans. The essential reasons is because these major racial acts of violence occurred in the past so we should now be able to look at it from a clear, reasonably coherent and tolerant point of view in order to make these events stop.
Racism in the 1960s was a huge decade and a battle between white and colored people. Propaganda played a big part in changing people’s minds. There is a whole range of media used to spread this propaganda, from prejudice commercials to inspiring speeches, for example ’I have a Dream from Birmingham Jail. People such as Martin Luther King Jr. tried to draw people to him by giving arrange speeches to the American public into changing people’s mind on segregation and to put an end to racism. Groups such as the KKK didn’t like to scare blacks into trying to leave town by putting up signs, burning homes down and killing people throughout the entire country, to show people the stand for what they believe in.
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.
the black people in America suffered from the police interference in their lives and were even imprisoned even though they were not guilty. It is obvious that every human being has dreams. Martin Luther King had a dream too, which was seeing the world in peace and having equality rule the world. He dreamt about having brotherhood and seeing black and whites “sit down together at the tale of brotherhood”. To conclude, black people all over the world, wherever they live were for a long time victim of racism for their skin color.
Because of this racism and prejudice, the decision of Atticus’ to defend this man (who would certainly be killed without a lawyer because he is black and the accuser is white) is widely discussed in the town. Atticus seems to take all the criticism and name-calling well and sticks to his belief. Atticus also seems to want to influence his children’s thoughts and attitudes towards colored people by hiring an African-American maid, Calpurina. He pays her a normal wage, one that a white maid would receive, and treats her with the same respect he
He took everyone out of the busses, and made the offense sit together on one bus, and the defense sit together on the other bus, no matter if you were black or white.If you focus on what divides, you will never be whole. This was the beginning of the unity. Another way that we can stop racism that i learned from the movie, is that we need to get to know one another more. When racism is present, you tend to stay away from that person, hating them without knowing them at all. In the movie Coach Boone made every black player room with a white player and every white player room with a black player.