Cyp 3.3 Episode 1

In the Black Mirror season 3 episode 1, the world is ruled by social status and social acceptance, everything from entering a building to flying on a plane is based on your social status which ranges from 0 to 5 stars. The theme of Racial profiling leading to demonization is present strongly in this episode. Black people and people of color are mostly seeing working in cafes and low-end jobs where their white counterparts have jobs in buildings where they seem to build their social status instead of working. Furthermore, the scene where Lacie was locked up in a prison the only other prisoner was a black male in a suit, representing that he was a worker but was racial profiled and locked up. Lacie then proceeds to insult the black male, calling
Bruce A. Arrigo (2008) discussed the idea that black people were more likely to incarcerated than their white counterpart, he later stated that “Ramirez (1983) found that Black convicts received a disproportionate number of conduct reports compared to their White counterparts in a medium-security federal correctional institute” (Arrigo, 2008, p, 633). Arrigo discussed how a black person was treated differently in the same situation is like how two black men in this episode loss their social standing and their jobs while only one white woman had a type of loss. Furthermore, this shows the how the society in the episode is based solely on social standing and that people of color are more likely to be of low standing and if they get high they have a greater chance of falling too low social standing than their white
Throughout the episode, there was a constant abuse of power by Sarah’s mother through the use of the Arkangel. furthermore, Sarah was subjugated to 24-hour surveillance for the majority of her life and this caused Sarah to have a fight with her mother and eventually run away from home. One example of the abuse of power is when Sarah’s mother used to the video feed from Sarah's eyes to spy on her after they agreed to stop using the Arkangel, she then used that video, which was of Sarah having sex with a guy, to blackmail the guy into leaving Sarah. This personifies a type of incarceration where Sarah is being imprison by her mother through the Arkangel device. Furthermore, this shows the unfair treatment towards Sarah while she was being watched because Sarah did not have free will, her actions were controlled through the control of her eyes and ears. Sarah’s mother implanted the device into Sarah’s head because she wanted to control her actions and what she sees. This can be seen as a form of juvenile detention where the child can be controlled, Christopher Bickel (2010) argued a comparable situation where he said, “juvenile detention centers provide the social location in which detained children, who are often working class and of color, are created different