You think you know who you are. You have no idea.
You think you know who you are. You have no idea.
I have experience racism in my life. As a young boy I was called a wop and spit on. Wop is a derogatory word for an Italian. But what exactly is the meaning behind a word. I learned to control my anger when called it and ignore it. Because that is just what it is, a tool for racism. When I was about ten years old, my second father literally threw my only friend out of the door because he was Pakistani. He continued to holler out hateful words and told him to never come near me again. I lost a good friend that day. I even remember vividly the Rodney King beating back in 1992.
I decided Friday I would purchase Crash, a movie that came out in 2004. This is one of those movies that make you think. Basically several characters from different racial backgrounds collide through the entire movie. While each characters judgment/belief/actions are affected by the different stereotypes about each of those backgrounds that currently plague our modern day society. This only in turn causes problems for each and every one of them.
Crash is not just a movie to entertain, but it is a social earthquake out to open the eyes of the ignorant. No one is safe from racial discrimination or innocent of it within the movie. It is White vs. Black, Black vs. Chinese, White vs. Spanish, Persian vs. Spanish and so on. In life we have to support on each other to survive. But most people ignore that. And that is the reality of our current day world. No one truly sees the real racism in our world. They assume racism and think Ku Klux Klan.
The acting in the movie is powerful, and will make you think. If anyone has not seen this movie then I shake my head because it is powerful and to be honest I almost cried when the little girl was shot at. It is a world of misconceptions and perceptions that we live in.
powerful quotes from the movie
I have experience racism in my life. As a young boy I was called a wop and spit on. Wop is a derogatory word for an Italian. But what exactly is the meaning behind a word. I learned to control my anger when called it and ignore it. Because that is just what it is, a tool for racism. When I was about ten years old, my second father literally threw my only friend out of the door because he was Pakistani. He continued to holler out hateful words and told him to never come near me again. I lost a good friend that day. I even remember vividly the Rodney King beating back in 1992.
I decided Friday I would purchase Crash, a movie that came out in 2004. This is one of those movies that make you think. Basically several characters from different racial backgrounds collide through the entire movie. While each characters judgment/belief/actions are affected by the different stereotypes about each of those backgrounds that currently plague our modern day society. This only in turn causes problems for each and every one of them.
Crash is not just a movie to entertain, but it is a social earthquake out to open the eyes of the ignorant. No one is safe from racial discrimination or innocent of it within the movie. It is White vs. Black, Black vs. Chinese, White vs. Spanish, Persian vs. Spanish and so on. In life we have to support on each other to survive. But most people ignore that. And that is the reality of our current day world. No one truly sees the real racism in our world. They assume racism and think Ku Klux Klan.
The acting in the movie is powerful, and will make you think. If anyone has not seen this movie then I shake my head because it is powerful and to be honest I almost cried when the little girl was shot at. It is a world of misconceptions and perceptions that we live in.
powerful quotes from the movie
posted by Michael Darling at Sunday, October 23, 2005
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