“I have right like you, I have right to buy guy,” screams an angry man when attempting to buy a gun. “Not in my store,” demands the owner. “Ya you’re ignorant.” “Oh ya, I’m ignorant. You’re liberating my country and I’m flying 747s into your mud huts and incinerating your friends.” In one of the opening scenes in Crash, a Muslim man and daughter are trying to buy a gun when predetermined stereotypes interfere causing this exchange to be rude, discriminatory and definitely uncalled for. Throughout the movie Crash, instances like these where stereotyping and prejudice is a common source of conflict, reinforces how society constantly pins certain ethnic and racial minorities to prior historical events to determine a preconceived notion of them.
Martin Luther King gave many speeches about racism and how people should not be judged by the colour of their skin, but on the basis of their character. Days later after he presented some of his speeches, his relatives’ houses were lit on fire and were completely destroyed by rebellions. His relatives begged him to stop but he did not listen but continued and kept persevering. Since Louis Riel had given the Provisional Government permission to arrest and kill Thomas Scott, he was labelled as a criminal and was issued a warrant
If one country is threatening another country, then they go to war and attempt to kill each other off. The movie, “A History Of Violence” portrays the idea of humans being inherently violent through the actions of Joey/Tom and his acquaintances. In one of the opening scenes, there are two murderers that enter Tom’s Diner at closing time. The men attempt to take everyone in the restaurant hostage and seconds before the raping of the waitress, Tom smashes a coffee pot on the face of one of the murderers and shoots and kills both of them. As the murderers were preparing to kill everyone, Tom attempted to talk to them and alleviate the situation to avoid anybody getting hurt.
She stomped to the back of the restaurant and screamed out, “I can't stand these ******* NIGGERS!” Although she had shown me nothing but kindness and courtesy until that point, in an instant, she became an enemy in my mind. She had crossed the invisible barrier that exists between different races and cultures, and there could be no turning back. This is the same barrier that Sal crosses in the film when he breaks Radio Raheem's boombox and calls him a nigger. This barrier is then swiftly destroyed with the death of Radio Raheem at the hands of the police, soon followed by the destruction of Sal's Pizzeria. Mookie and Sal represent the last vestige of sanity in the neighborhood.
Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting The play “Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting” by Ed Schmidt starts off in the Hotel Roosevelt, in midtown Manhattan. So basically Banch Rickey the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers is trying to bring Jackie Robinson who is second baseman for the Montreal Royals, a black player to be part of Brooklyn Dodgers. He invited Joe Louis, Paul Robeson and Bill Robinson to the meeting, to decide whether Jackie will be part of Brooklyn Dodgers or not. After reading the whole script it seems that Rickey wants to do things his way for selfish reasons, to get fame and money while Robeson wants to do it for altruistic ones.
“Whydah is being attacked by pirate ships!” yelled the town crier, as the drums beat loudly. Horrified with the loud shooting and war raid, Dada Deo ran through the fields of Whydah looking for refuge. “Olorun igbala (“God our savior”)!” he prayed. The people ran to their homes hoping this was just a nightmare. A savage crew of fifty or more white men invaded the streets of Whydah firing their rifles and yelling, “Take the chains and shackles and capture as many as you can!” Dada Deo, horror-strucked by the confusion and uproar, knew this was not a nightmare.
A rather enthusiastic Buggin Out character requests that Sal, the proud owner of the local neighborhood pizzeria, place some photos of great African Americans on his "Wall of Fame." Sal sees no reason to change his ways. It's his place and he will do what he wants, and he insists on keeping the wall dedicated to great Italian Americans, even though the neighborhood is predominantly African-American. Buggin Out is outraged. He insistently goes around the neighborhood urging a boycott of Sal's.
The civilians dragged the huge soldiers across the sand, they won't, should'nt get shot any more by the monsters; At the market the delicate, fabric dresses made with silk, torn and shreded apart by bullets when the clash began, they were unaware... Coridors of blood led to garages of silk and and food now filled with dread; rain washed the walls and made crimson red pools. The market was abandoned, noone was in sight; yet it looked eerie. Two auctions on either side had gaping holes in the side and the rain was wrecking the posh, oak, antique furniture. The hand made, golded and red rug was drenched with cold, beating rain water. Lighting began to flash and thunder started to roar.
We know that as, when there is the rat incident, with everybody being scared, Bigger reacts by killing the beast brutally with a skillet. Also, he reacts with violence against White society as he’s scared of them. But, instead of keeping quiet and minding his own business, he feels the need to rob Blum’s, a white mans, store. However, in the end he doesn’t do it as he is in fear of being caught. Again, though he reacts to it by beating Gus, his friend, up using the excuse of Gus being late to get out of their 4mission.
The disaster and devastation, emotional exile and the search for an ending are all the reasons to why Bassam has to leave his homeland. Bassam is surrounded by devastation and disaster everyday due to the civil war. This disaster begins to weigh on a person’s point of view as well as their behaviour towards others within their life and community. Bassam describes the way his neighbourhood has fallen apart due to the bombs: “Heat descended, bombs landed, and thugs jumped the long lines for bread, stole the food of the weak, bullied the baker and caressed his daughter. Thugs never waited in line” (12).