Ethnicity In Freedom Riders
The movie Freedom Riders has a great display of the variation of ethnicity throughout. Wilson High encases this situation very well. The different ethnicities in this movie are at a constant war with each other, but not for long. When Ms. Gruwell comes to teach at Wilson, in room 203, the world is changed.
At the beginning of the movie, the kids in room 203 were very disruptive, impolite, and always caused fights with each other. The different ethnicities did not mingle and if they did it was for the wrong cause. Many of the children grew up with very hard backgrounds and were just taught to stay alive. Every single teenager was either abandoned or betrayed. This labels the kids in room 203 “at risk.” This means that they are soon to fail …show more content…
It shows us how different races separate themselves. If anyone of a different race even walks up to another group, automatically there begins a debacle. We still see this some today. As we walk down the halls, or have a break you can tell that we all segregate from each other. You have every different group you could ever imagine. I feel like this issue is better now in the sense that we are all friends. We hang out mostly with people of the same race, but we would be totally fine if someone else from a different race came with us. We are all friends.
There are many situations where the AP english students are treated better than the “at risk” students. The staff believes that the AP students are super smart and work hard, therefore they get newer things and a fantastic education. The “at risk” students are considered “dumb” and “dropouts” to the staff therefore they do not get any education nor do they get any nice things. This is one thing we do not see today. Mr. Roberson’s LYP motto has strengthened Oxford High as a whole. He makes sure that we are all treated equally which is a major step in making us all happy and the same.
Freedom Writers is a great movie that truly showcases many schools around the world. The started out the same dating back to the 1850’s but many schools are starting to overcome segregation. Even though we are not there yet, we are working as a whole to get
At the beginning of the movie, the kids in room 203 were very disruptive, impolite, and always caused fights with each other. The different ethnicities did not mingle and if they did it was for the wrong cause. Many of the children grew up with very hard backgrounds and were just taught to stay alive. Every single teenager was either abandoned or betrayed. This labels the kids in room 203 “at risk.” This means that they are soon to fail …show more content…
It shows us how different races separate themselves. If anyone of a different race even walks up to another group, automatically there begins a debacle. We still see this some today. As we walk down the halls, or have a break you can tell that we all segregate from each other. You have every different group you could ever imagine. I feel like this issue is better now in the sense that we are all friends. We hang out mostly with people of the same race, but we would be totally fine if someone else from a different race came with us. We are all friends.
There are many situations where the AP english students are treated better than the “at risk” students. The staff believes that the AP students are super smart and work hard, therefore they get newer things and a fantastic education. The “at risk” students are considered “dumb” and “dropouts” to the staff therefore they do not get any education nor do they get any nice things. This is one thing we do not see today. Mr. Roberson’s LYP motto has strengthened Oxford High as a whole. He makes sure that we are all treated equally which is a major step in making us all happy and the same.
Freedom Writers is a great movie that truly showcases many schools around the world. The started out the same dating back to the 1850’s but many schools are starting to overcome segregation. Even though we are not there yet, we are working as a whole to get