The Media 's Choice Of A Desert

As we were watching this film I could tell that there were many messages that the director wanted the audience to gain from this movie. One of the messages I got from this movie is that every single person is extremely similar however racial issues hold us back from discovering that. I believe the director wanted viewers to realize that stereotypes and discrimination keeps us from learning about one another. With the way things came

In the beginning of filming when directors wanted to portray a black character directors would have white actors in black face. The role the actor was playing while in black face would often playing characters who had negative characteristics and personality. This is equivalent to what Hollywood films are doing to the continent of Africa, highlighting every negative aspect about her but not bringing to light everything beautiful about it. Rochelle Burgess writes how she was bought to tears after watching only one half of Adam Brace’s play They Drink It in the congo, in the play she writes that “Black men were portrayed as violent and full of rage and as sexual predators, and black women were portrayed as victims and silent workhorses.” The congo was portrayed as a broken country to which white leads in the play were trying to help improve their living conditions, she then continues to say “I watched as black characters were used to prop up the self-exploration of white leads.” Plays and films like these help to prop up the illegitimate disgraced picture of Africa that most Americans believe is

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.

The audience within the film, for example, quickly embraces the black-faced foolishness of Mantan: The New Millennium Minstrel Show in their lives. Though once visibly uncomfortable with the content of Mantan, the audience soon responds

The motivation behind this motion picture is to divert. In light of this, the film has a huge authoritative reach and individuals aren't anticipating that it should induce them of anything so they are more vulnerable to having confidence in the social standards and thoughts that the motion picture advances.

The film also gives background information on black facing and speaks upon the black actors that did participate in it. In my opinion the movie became pretty poetic, in a spoken word form, when it began to talk about the feelings of men that would entertain whites with their black face performances. These

I have asked some African Americans what they think about that movie, and they would say that was a long time ago, or that was not us, or that it does not mean anything to them. This was the beginning of what happened to us, and how the African Americans became lost of themselves. They were forced to take on Christianity, which is a made up religion that the Caucasian race made up to rule and have power over the African Americans at that time. The Bible is their book that they follow today, but the Holy Qur’an is truly their holy book. The Bible has been set in a way for the African race to believe in at that time. The people took out the real parts of the Bible, and put in their own interpretations to be believed in. This is what the Africans were taught, and forced to take on.

A stereotype can be defined as a “representational practice” that categorizes and segregates an individual or group of individuals based on their differences, often associating him/her with a positive or negative label, such as, by outcasting an individual based on their racial and ethnic backgrounds (Hall 225). The image of Africans as savages is a common stereotype seen in American and European films that show Africans as barbaric and primitive creatures. Specifically in these films, a savage is an African who is constantly portrayed and characterized as a worthless, lazy, blood-thirsty, cannibalistic beast “who probably deserves to die” (158). This is because Africans don’t fit the stereotypical cookie-cutter mold of what the directors consider “normal” (i.e. being a great white hunter), and therefore, they are immediately seen as insignificant and worthless individuals (158). Over time, as African produced films start forming an appearance in Hollywood, the perception of Africans slowly changes. In part because African directors represent their race as lead characters who are independent and smart. Africans are no longer seen as savage creatures, but instead, as actual human beings who crave to have their voice heard in the

However, motivating the movie may be, it simply just suggests the fact that women of color are poor and that they are in bad situations that need to be saved. The movie simply creates and labels women of color in a poor demeanor and spreading that to the homes of people who watch it. The issue being why do we feel the need to label women of color as these types of women? What effects of these movies are being produced?

The movie reflects the climate of desolation, despair and poverty lived by most of the

Over the years many movies involving racism themes have been produced and most of those movies end up being incredibly controversial. In the beginning there were more films depicting African Americans as savages with animal like behaviors.

This can make individuals think and truly analyze what it means to be a black individual in society. Also as said in the film, black people go through so much. Many times white individuals will not be able to understand the struggle and hardships that black individuals in America go through. There is always hard treatment and punishments that black individuals go through everyday that white individuals may not face that black individuals do. Unfortunately this is how the world is and if individuals do not do something to put an end to this, it will continue to occur and maybe even get worse. There needs to be an answer as to why there is a continuation of bad treatment to black individuals that occurs. As seen in the film and said by Asare in her piece, there needs to be a raised awareness in the world about what is going on. Black individuals are being tormented and treated badly without anyone putting a stop to it. Technology plays a key role in helping spread the awareness about what is occurring. Individuals can easily video what is happening and spread this to the public. This will help with showing the public what is going on and having them work together to come up with something that can be done to stop

One of the reasons is because, is one of the first movie, that African Americans are being treated the right way. What I mean by that is that all the movies I have watched are about slavery or about White American being races. In this movie they showed White American treading African Americans the right way. White helped the African Americans improve in their Learning and have better jobs. By that time the White people needed employees because, War World II

The following lines are from Dan Buettner’s book, Thrive, the author has made his way to Mexico (rated the sixth happiest country) and is painting a vision of the desert landscape in order for the reader to get a sense of the environment.

Steven Spielberg directed the film and the main motivation of the author was showing that every single person, not depending on the color of skin has the right to be free. In other words each person is born free and nobody can take this freedom away from him. According to