One of the main ways that we see discrimination is between the races. The African Americans are not allowed to do the same things as the whites can. One thing is that they, the African Americans, cannot use the same bathrooms as the whites. The maid Minny flushed the toilet of her white employer, and she was immediately fired. The books that they use in the schools cannot even go from a white person school to a black person school. It seems as though the African Americans are viewed as filthy.
The movie shows how discrimination