Examples Of Discrimination In The Movie Selma
I watched the movie Selma for my movie review. I had never watched the movie before and had wanting to watch it for some time now. The movie was very sad but now after watching it I feel encouraged to fight for my rights and others. The movie Selma is the heart-breaking truth about how the African Americans fought for their freedom in the 1960’s. Martin Luther King Jr. was known for being a minister in Atlanta and a rights activist for African American freedoms. The movie is about King trying to get President Johnson to sign the Voting Rights Acts and the marches he led in the process.
The movie starts out with King receiving the Nobel Prize in Sweden with his wife Coretta. When King returns he goes to the White House and urges President …show more content…
The African Americans are a minority group so that makes them subject to more racial discrimination. Discrimination is an act of unfair treatment directed against an individual or group. Discriminations happens everywhere every day, for some it’s a part of their everyday lives and it shouldn’t be. Discrimination can happen for any reason and it doesn’t always have to be racial, it could be anything from who you voted for president to or people making fun of you clothes. The type of discrimination in Selma is individual discrimination this means person-to-person or face-to-face discrimination; the negative treatment of people by other individuals. Prejudice was also another key factor in Selma, Prejudice is basically when a person or group thinks that they are better than some else and acts in a negative way towards that certain person or group. The Selma Head Sheriff Jim Clack was probably one of the main reasons for all this prejudice, he didn't think the African Americans should have the right to vote and he influenced others in Selma to think the same. Like discrimination prejudice doesn’t always include race prejudice could be your family is poor and you see these rich families and say rude comments to them and treat them poorly or vice versa, you come from a wealthy family and you think the poor are beneath you so you treat like servants, even though they are just as much human as you
The movie starts out with King receiving the Nobel Prize in Sweden with his wife Coretta. When King returns he goes to the White House and urges President …show more content…
The African Americans are a minority group so that makes them subject to more racial discrimination. Discrimination is an act of unfair treatment directed against an individual or group. Discriminations happens everywhere every day, for some it’s a part of their everyday lives and it shouldn’t be. Discrimination can happen for any reason and it doesn’t always have to be racial, it could be anything from who you voted for president to or people making fun of you clothes. The type of discrimination in Selma is individual discrimination this means person-to-person or face-to-face discrimination; the negative treatment of people by other individuals. Prejudice was also another key factor in Selma, Prejudice is basically when a person or group thinks that they are better than some else and acts in a negative way towards that certain person or group. The Selma Head Sheriff Jim Clack was probably one of the main reasons for all this prejudice, he didn't think the African Americans should have the right to vote and he influenced others in Selma to think the same. Like discrimination prejudice doesn’t always include race prejudice could be your family is poor and you see these rich families and say rude comments to them and treat them poorly or vice versa, you come from a wealthy family and you think the poor are beneath you so you treat like servants, even though they are just as much human as you