Spike Lee’s films, deal with different aspects of the black experience, they are innovative and controversial even within the black community. Spike Lee refuses to be satisfied with presenting blacks in their acceptable stereotypes. His characters are three-dimensional and often vulnerable to moral criticism. Lee’s collection of films with the theme racism, stood out for me because he is more interested in subverting the status quo of black history, so it isn’t just typical films which show racism. I also liked Lee’s intimate describing of his experience, and how some of his films had interesting elements to them because he was part of the black society.
Henry’s father self identifies as being a Mexican while Henry and the other youth self identify as being Chicanos. It is interesting that since the Chicano movement did not start until after the 1940’s that there was racism within the Mexican community itself. Racism towards Anglos occurs in a scene in the bar where Henry fights with another gang rival. El Pachuco makes the statement “don’t hate raza more than gringo’s”; this statement shows the hatred for Anglos but also speaks to how Mexicans need to stick together. Being that this is a short paper, I will only talk about a few incidents in the courtroom scene as there far too many examples of racism to detail here.
According to Mercer, (1994) and Shohat and Stam, 1994) this may be due to the fact that apparently each positive stereotype has a negative result. Therefore, as black men and women have come to excel in various sports, people of a non ethnic backgroundhave needed an explanation for why what seemed to be an inferior race can outperform a superior one. This may be one of many factors which may have encouraged resentment for their success which in turn could have lead to abuse in a racist nature. Secondly, a disproportionately high level of athletic participation by diverse ethnic minority cultures has often been used by 'liberal minded' sports enthusiasts as an excuse to indicate that there is no racism in these arenas. These authors use these examples to try and illustrate that there is no form or racism in certain sports, however authors such as (Williams 1992, 1994; Turner 1990; Holland 1992a, 1992b, 1995) have
The movie is fully embedded in black culture, as seen in its dialogue, cast, visuals and soundtrack. Given how underrepresented and unsympathetically portrayed black people have been in cinema in general, I applaud the filmmakers for taking this step. The themes of the movie are even concerned with things that most white people don’t have to worry about. By making Killmonger an advocate for militancy and anger, while T’Challa symbolizes love and peace-making efforts, “Black Panther” is about how black people should respond to years of oppression. This adds another layer to their conflict.
Now the training of men is a difficult and intricate task.”(Dubois 1) I personally think that the contamination of most blacks today is from out dated teachings, some churches, politicians and most importantly, the entertainment business. The media influence blacks to glorify street life and poverty. If we had more rappers and media outlets talking about things with substance in the community like political issues, understanding our prominence and up lifting the culture, I think that people would start to be moved or shifted into the right directions. Dubois states “School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and
The movie incoporates many struggles face by today’s racial stereotypes. Furth more, the director uses dialogues an physical action the character to illustrate various racial stereotype that are pre-assigned to each race by each individual. Crash has shown realities, but not
We have had many positive motivational speakers and people formed because of racism. People like Martin Luther King Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and the freedom riders are just a few of the credible people who helped the America to become united. People like Martin Luther King helped inspire people to be proud of whom they were and to show them a sense of belonging. Blacks (and many other races) had inspiration (and they still do) which gave them character, which shaped each person and America is made for the people, so shaping each person caused the shaping of America itself. How does racism affect you no matter what color?
At the same token, many Americans feel negative about Asian Americans. I think that they feel as though they are a threat. No only because of America’s past with them as far as going to war but also because many American’s feel as though many immigrants come to this country and do better than them and it’s at their expense. All and all, one has to admit whether they feel positively or negatively about Asian-Americans they have to agree that they have done very well in America socially and economically. Many Asian Americans are very smart.
However, you could argue that although they had won the right to vote, segregation still continued throughout the South and lynchings and discrimination continued in the North. I would say that there was substantial change for blacks in the North as they were getting more highly paid and were starting to receive better education, although the lack of equality still remained between black and white Americans as black Americans were still being paid much less than white workers. I also believe that as there were many black campaigns and activists after the war, this could suggest that there was still a want for equality on the black Americans half which puts forward the idea that despite having helped fought for their country, they were still being treated as second class
Individuals have also made good arguments about the negative outcome that racial profiling might bring to our society. Obviously it has led the dominant race to have superiority to the minorities – racial discrimination. James Zogby, the president of the Arab-American Institute have made a point that he have seen a lot of dark skinned people being searched and treated with humiliation, which is really wrong – Racial Relations. David Harris, a writer and Professor at Toledo College, have already written a couple of books about racial profiling. He states that law enforcers think that they would be more accurate in targeting a suspicious group, but in reality, what happens is the total opposite wherein officials have inaccurate results in targeting the suspect—Race Relations.