American Crime Scene Analysis

The United States faces many detriments that affect the lives of many each and every day. In short, there are murders happenings, an increase in hate crime due to the outcome of the recent election, and protest that have ended in many casualties. It is a harsh world out there and the popular television series, American Crime, reveals several realistic instances that we could face in our everyday lives. In the second season of the American Crime series, a teenager by the name Taylor Blaine is a lower class student attending a private school called Leland High School. The show centers around a particular event where Taylor attends a party held by the school’s basketball team captains where the protagonist is drugged and raped. As the series …show more content…
One could reasonably infer that these students likely have lower grades and therefore receive less opportunity than Leland students. In parallel we analyzed the podcast, The Problem We All Live With, which stated, “The bad schools never caught up to the good schools, and the bad schools were mostly black and Latino and the good schools were mostly white” (Jones). Further on we discover that the speaker is describing two schools in a similar academic situation as the two high schools in American Crime. In both American Crime and the Podcast, there are definite similarities between the parents of the student who attended the public schools. In the first episode, the audience is introduced to Taylor Blain’s girlfriend who attends Marshall High School, Evy Dominguez, and her Latino family. In episode 1 season 2, Evy walks into her raggedy house with her hands full of groceries. She greets her father with a back massage and her mother who is seriously ill in bed. After seeing this scene, it is clear that Evy parents are of lower income. With this evidence, the state of their neighborhood, the disabled mother, and aching father, one would agree that many students who attend Marshall High School are, for the most come from poor families. The same can be concluded about the Missouri high school, Normandy, the same high school Michael Brown attended. Nichol Hannah Jones states in the podcast that “the school district [Michael Brown] attended is almost completely black, almost completely poor and failing… Badly” (Jones). These two instances lead many to believe that poor, diverse, and low grades are typical characteristics of many public schools in America. Overall, the movie and the television show and The Problem We All Live With intersect to indicate the issue of poverty among many public schools in the United