Angela Davis Movie Reflection

     This film surprised me. I never knew that that happened to children in those days. Slavery wasn't just the Negroes and Indians. It made me think how lucky I am to live in the day in age that I do, even though there are still children treated like this. I just was lucky and grew up in a good

Part two of the documentary which was labeled as “High and Low” struck out to me the most. This part brought up issues that we can all for the most part say we have at least saw in our daily lives. This section also brought up some of the many struggles that African-Americans have to deal with every day. For example, two women brought up the point that the label “Bourgeois” is a constant problem within black America. If a black person works hard to make a lot of money, get a good education and become successful, the black

This movie in particular was three hours long, for most viewing a three hour film with speaking is draining. Seeing that I could barely endure my focus on what was being shown. I decided to divide the movie up into three days for an hour. For those days I took notes and really analyzed what I thought was wrong and miss told. In the movie the embellishments about Africa Americans was misguiding. The beginning of the second half, the whites were holding up signs stating they wanted “Equal rights, equal politics and equal marriages.” Realistically speaking, we all know that was not the case. For the most part whites only wanted that for themselves not for the whole community. The way that Griffith tried to reveal whites was in a way that said they were in favor for equal rights for all. That they were the “helpless white minority.” And to be quite honest I think that’s pushing it.

In 1865, nearly ninety years after the founding of the United States, the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, thereby abolishing the “peculiar institution” which had once threatened to end the Great Experiment of American Democracy. Two subsequent amendments, ratified in 1868 and 1870, guaranteed equal protection of the law to all citizens and prohibited the denial of voting rights on the basis of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Yet, close to one hundred years after these three Reconstruction Amendments became the law of the land, racial equality was still something confined to the dreams of visionaries and activists. Writing a letter from Birmingham Jail in Alabama, civil rights leader Martin Luther King

Society has been significantly revolutionized since the beginnings of the United States. The very history of the country has been cursed with racism and the harsh oppression of minorities. In fact, America’s power and economy were founded on a Marxist theory of a two-class system. On the top of that system were the slave owners, and at the very bottom were the slaves themselves (Balkaran, 1999). Slavery and segregation used to be huge components in the lives of Americans. During those times, “Americans” were white, landowning men; obviously that principle has been altered a great deal. People of color, women, and the poor actually have been given suffrage by amendments in the Constitution. Although the United States’ culture and society

After watching this movie, it gave me an appreciation of where I am from and all ancestors before me. This is definitely a movie that I recommend every black person watch. The movie was well written.

The movie’s main focus is racism in the southern United States. It was at times hard to hear the KKK members in the movie describe African Americans in such vile words. The movie accurately portrays racism in the south; a good portion of whites really believed that blacks were the scum of the earth. Blacks were separated from the population, and routinely harassed, beaten, and sometimes killed because of their race.

As a young girl my great-grandmother used to tell my male-cousin and I to make people treat us as an equal, because we are Kings and Queens. As a child I didn’t understand, now as a young woman I understand. I am very proud of my skin color as well as the fact of being considered Haitian American / Black American female. The whole ideal about this movie is letting the African American culture know that in order to be accepted we have to accept ourselves first.

The last thirty to forty minutes of the film impacted me the most. In particular, the compilation of videos that depict police brutality was not only hard to watch but hard to absorb. While I am aware of the ongoing issues regarding police brutality against people of color, I was still shocked to see so many examples played back to back. Students learn about the Civil Rights Movement in school for years, but seeing all of the recent cases of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration laid out reminds us how much more progress needs to be made in our society.

I learned about racial discrimination in the African American population. It showed the everyday struggles some African Americans face because of racism. I also learned about the struggle and issues involved with living in a low poverty neighborhood. The film showed gang related crimes, drug use and violence all related to poorer

The emotional reaction that the filmmakers intended for anyone who watch this film is that no matter what skin, hair and eye color is no one deserves to be labeled. No race should be discriminated and criticize. We should all get along and just be proud of where our roots come from. This film also intended for everyone who watch this film, is that there should not have to be obstacles to be proud of your own race.

The only way racism or racist can truly effect anyone is if society lets it, but as long as there are people who stand against it racism will never win out over

Despite the civil rights movement, racism is still very much alive and an issue in today's world. I believe that in order for America to end racism we need to stop being racist ourselves. There is no other possible solution to this issue then by just stoping the ideology of it all. Honestly, as long as we still have white supremacists groups out there like the KKK and the Council of Conservative Citizens then we will get nowhere with trying to end racism in America. That is exactly why I believe we need to try harder to get rid of groups and people with mentality's such as these. For gods sake, how do we really expect to end racism in America when Donald Trump a representative of the GOP one of the most oldest and prestigious political parties

Racism has become about only blacks and whites like those are the only races. I am also a Hispanic female, and I disagree that African-Americans and Americans should be the only ones in the media every time something happens. The quotes from the film were blasted all over the Internet. What about things happening with other races? We never think about major things like this. People act like racism only happens within these two races. We have other minorities and races, so should it be okay for everyone to be racist? Eventually, we have to change this cycle we will continue this ignorance. We should never allow reverse racism, this term is used to describe acts of discrimination and prejudice perpetrated by racial minorities or

Even though the film was meant to funny, it did make me think about different cultural preduice and obstacles interacial relationships may face. Over all I enjoyed the film it poked fun at racial prejudice and brought some good topics to the table. However, I wish they would have take the opportunity to have gone deeper into racism and brought it out into the open for people to