Fear of Whites

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Fear of Whites is written by Michael Moore, an American film director and author, well known for his satiric publications and pronounced political views. And once again Michael Moore is sharp and witty, while he takes on a well-known, serious issue. Even his first sentence is a very serious matter that is in fact steeped in irony: “I don’t know what it is, but every time I see a white guy walking towards me, I tense up.” and after a few lines you realize that you have heard this before, just with “black” instead of “white”. Michael Moore writes about his fear of white people - even though he himself is a white man - and how just about all of the bad things that’s ever happened in history are the white man’s fault, but still it is the black man who is always feared and accused of the worst. It is the white man who scares Michael Moore, and he has realized that the media have brainwashed everybody into thinking that the white man is a good and harmless man, when everybody, who has ever hurt Michael Moore, has been a white man. He tell that every problem ever created be it starvation, pollution, disease, starting of wars etcetera, is created by a white man, and yet the media always portray a black man who has done something - everything - bad, always a black man. Always the same black face with the same clothes, as if it was the same black man crime-riding America singlehandedly. Michael Moore finds it amazingly odd that even though most crimes are committed by white men, it’s always the black men who get blamed, so today we associate a black face with crime and a white face with innocence. Michael Moore also brings one of his films into play, Roger & Me, and it has an element of a white woman clubbing a rabbit to death, and a black man being shot. People complain about the woman clubbing the rabbit - school teachers having to censor it out because of how
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