Racism In The Movie Crash

Crash Term Paper
All through time, the world has been racist and intolerant of people different from themselves. Countless millions have suffered due to the bigotry of people that could not understand change or differences among one another. There was a time when anyone with darker skin where immediately classed as inferior and not human. Even now, when you are not aware, racism is still a considerable problem. But sometimes it is not one person being racist against another, but rather one person being racist against them self. The movie Crash shows good examples of how racism against oneself caused by fear and misunderstanding, is just as malicious and evil as racism against another person. Fear is what makes people act racist against others
During class we focused on films that touched on these issues as well, such as: Higher Learning, The Trials of Darryl Hunt, To Kill a Mocking Bird etc. All of these films have one thing in common: the issue of race and stereotyping. Higher learning is a movie about a group of college freshman attending Columbus University and how they had to balance schoolwork and the issues that they faced on a daily basis. This particular film deals with race isolation, sexuality and social equality. These issues are shown through various scenes throughout the movie. The scene in particular was when the white supremacist group along with Remy were planning on taking out everyone at a nonviolent rally in order to show them the separation between the races and not wanting to conform. The Trials of Darryl Hunt is a documentary about Darryl Hunt a 19 year old black male that was wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of Deborah Sykes and served 19 years in prison for a crime that he did not commit. This movie ties in with Crash because it addressed the issue of racial profiling. Darryl Hunt served time in federal prison not because he was guilty but the fact that he was black and fit the role of the killer. To Kill a Mockingbird is a film based on a written novel about the perception of Jem and Scout Finch on their Fathers case defending a black man named Robinson who was wrongfully accused of rape in which justice was not served. All of these films deal with the social issue of race, inequality and moral ethics. These films make us look at ourselves differently and question our self-illusions. People are very adamant about these social issues still being present in this day and age and in order to break the cycle, one must answer this question, are we living in a world in which a person will bypass my outer appearance and accept me