I do not believe that all of these videos are simply just racist people and racist behavior. The first video at the barber shop, for example, I do not think is racism. I believe that it was depicting prejudice not blatant racism. It showed how a black customer is unsure about the abilities of the white barber. More than anything it was the black customer’s preconceived ideas about the barber not knowing how to manage his hair. This was not based solely on skin color nor did it stem from a place of hatred or repulsion. Prejudice can be based on a number of things, like the fact that the barber’s hair was unkempt, not just skin color.
I believe the second video, more so, involves discrimination. This discrimination is not just because the day
First off, it is a common belief that today racism is something that people are born with, especially Southerners because of the history of slavery in the South. In the video, 13th, it said that 1 in 3 black men are expected
Another video I watched also had racism in it. It shows a white man in Walmart, ranting to a Hispanic
Racism has shaped societies since the beginning of time, as far back as the children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Even then, people living in the land of Goshen were subjugated to racism because of their differences. From Hitler and the Nazis to the Southern American slave owners, prejudice of one race against another has resulted in atrocities. Racism has shaped the form of our present day societies. Racism will likely never be completely removed from our society it will always exist. However, in an effort to counteract the disease of racism, modern-day societies have drafted and enacted legislation for the sole purpose of ensuring that people treat each other with respect and dignity allowing one another their inalienable right to their
Is racism still a problem in America more than fifty years after the Civil Rights Movement, and 48 years after the 1964 Civil Rights Act signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson? How far has America come from the days when African Americans were lynched by fanatical racist mobs and from the days when Jim Crowe laws trumped the laws set forth by the U.S. Constitution? This paper delves into those and other issues involving racism in America. Thesis: American has come a long way from the days of lynchings and prohibitions against African Americans voting or sitting at the lunch counter. There are laws that protect minorities from discrimination in housing and hiring, and great strides have been made. However, racism remains a reality, including institutional racism in America.
The first video it talked about how the Jim Crow Laws happen and it was shocking for me because Jim Crow used to be a character for comedy based on a black person, it was basically entertainment for the Whites only. Jim Crow was basically a form of racial discrimination. One person that hated the law was our well known president Abraham Lincoln he wanted to put a stop to slavery because he wanted the
Since the discovery of the America; slavery, separate but equal; segregated pools, buses, trains and water fountains; workplace and housing discriminations; as well as other biases and hostilities have served as the painful reality of the United States’ racial health, especially for African Americans, more so those living in Southern States; Let not forget about the beatings, bombings and assassinations.
Prejudice played a huge part in this video because Pino has a preconceived notion about blacks in society. Even though every celebrity he looks up to are black, he claims they are different because they just are. He can't even give evidence to back up his theory about blacks, but he just "knows" they are not like every other black person in society. Stereotypes played a big role as well because towards the end of clip people of different groups were making "over-exaggerated descriptions" of people of other groups. A Korean man , Mookie, Pino, and a white cop were verbalizing their over-exaggerated mental beliefs about different groups.
“A Class Divided” video demonstrated prejudice to young children based on the color of their eyes and how this is related to the unfairness of racism. The teacher took ribbons and tied them around the neck of a certain eye color group for a day and treated them differently. It demonstrated to the children that they cannot choose what eye color they have and they got very upset that they were being treated poorly and their friends with a different eye color were not. This in conjunction with how a person of color doesn’t get to determine their skin color but still are treated solely on the color of their skin.
“Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favorite child,” says Don King, an American boxing promoter considered by many to be the most prominent name in the world of Professional boxing. Today most of the countries in the world are either developed or are developing at a quick pace and racial prejudice seems like a thing of the past, but that’s not the case. Racism is still prevalent and widespread. It is too hard to believe that racism is still pretty common at schools, workplaces and in almost all the day to day activities in a country like America, which is headed by Barack Obama, the current President of United States, and the first African-American to hold the office. Is racism so powerful that it is hard
From the beginning of the video, the events and stories were horrible. For example, how a Sargent in the police force just came back from Vietnam where he was in his own segregated army defending the same country that treated him as a lesser than when compared to a white man. This is shocking to me personally.
This video has many different aspects that was interesting. There were some viewpoints stated within the video that was agreeable and disagreeable. There were also aspects mention in the video that I heard mention before. For example, “Blacks are better at sports”. I think that statement is stereotyping. People bodies and health is different from one another, which cause a person to perform better than the other. Another example that was made in the video that I found interesting was “Asian are better at math”. People learn on different levels and in different ways, therefore everyone can learn the same information. Stereotyping and being bias has been an issue for years and still is sin some cases. The aspects that was talked about in the
The video showed how people react when faced with racism and discrimination. The first section showed a hairdresser (actor) making negative comments about a bi-racial couple that were in the salon. Her comments indicated she didn’t agree with bi-racial relationships stating that “I thought she was your housekeeper” (What would you do? Series 3: Instinctive reactions and what they reveal [Video file], 2014). She also stated that she wasn’t racist it was just that she didn’t “see a lot of white people with black women” (What would you do? Series 3: Instinctive reactions and what they reveal [Video file], 2014) and that “they’re ruining our culture” (What would you do? Series 3: Instinctive reactions and what they reveal [Video
The clip begins with two African American males walking out of a restaurant, in which one makes a comment about how many people waited so long just for a plate of spaghetti. Next, the two men are discussing their waitress, where one complained how their waitress filled everyone else’s coffee mug because they were white. The other man reminded him that the waitress was also African American. They continue the conversation where the man on the left continued to complain about how the waitress tried to get the two of them out of the restaurant as quickly as possible because of their race. He said “We’re black and black people don’t tip.” When asked if he did tip, he responded saying that he did not.
Note: This essay intends to explain the differences in first and third person narratives, highlighting examples within the two stories “Let them call it Jazz” and “A sense of shame”, both of which deal with racism and its subcultures in a first and third person perspective, respectively. The arguments presented are limited to that of first and third person perspectives only.
More specific, in the video the Caucasian woman detects and acts immediately against race discrimination, stepping out the elevator and moving beside the dark-skinned women so both can stare deadly in the eyes of the Caucasian male. There are many opinions that consider it unrealistic and it’s clearly a deceptive