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Stereotypes In Colour Me
The documentary film Colour me directed by sherien Barsoum, starting Anthony McLean who emphasizes on three main themes identity, race and stereotyping. Motivational speaker / rapper Anthony McLean who empowers five teens from a Brampton high school by involving them in a mentorship program after informing us on his past life growing up in a white area of Aurora as a black child with a white mother. His biggest struggle was that even as an adult he has yet to discover his true identity, throughout the documentary he states " what does it really mean to be Black.?" I find it ironic that in order for me to define what it means to be black the first thing I did was think of black stereotypes through music, violence, high school dropouts etc,
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