The first time, I was watching this video in class, the movie opened my eye and touched my heart. It was hurtful to see white people portraying blacks as monkeys. I never knew that certain children songs and cartoons were racist. For example, “Catch a Nigger by the toe. If he won't work, then let him go”. At first, I thought the rhythm of the song sound very fun, however, I tried to look closer to the meaning of the song, I got scare by the negative presentation it had on black people. This was very shocking to know that certain cartoons showed oppression. As kids whom watching that kinds of cartoon, they never realized any of this because they were unaware about a lot of things. For me, when I watch television, I see there are still stereotypes,
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These characters that black people played and were portrayed in were very depressing to see how others viewed them. I felt as though blacks than weren’t seen as individuals but as a whole. Exaggerations occurred all throughout the video. The one thing that really caught my eye was when whites shown blacks to be happy on the plantation because they saw it as paradise to them. Blacks didn’t enjoy picking cottons and getting beat near every day. Freedom brought hope to blacks. Emancipation lead whites to be wild because they were mad at the fact that they couldn’t control blacks anymore. It was heart breaking to see that in movies whites portrayed black men as aggressive beast attacking white women just because whites needed a reason for killing them. The next thing surprising me was the soldier in WW1. I didn’t know that in WW1, blacks weren’t acknowledged to be soldiers. Whites portrayed them as just servants in the war and entertainment for them.
Watching this movie made me realize how stereotypes are not funny and should be limited in the media. For example, last few month, the Red Cross's Pool Safety was making racist mistake. Most of the black kids in the banner do the wrong rules of the pool while the while kids are following rules. Nowadays, the society are improving, so not all of people will look and
These characters that black people played and were portrayed in were very depressing to see how others viewed them. I felt as though blacks than weren’t seen as individuals but as a whole. Exaggerations occurred all throughout the video. The one thing that really caught my eye was when whites shown blacks to be happy on the plantation because they saw it as paradise to them. Blacks didn’t enjoy picking cottons and getting beat near every day. Freedom brought hope to blacks. Emancipation lead whites to be wild because they were mad at the fact that they couldn’t control blacks anymore. It was heart breaking to see that in movies whites portrayed black men as aggressive beast attacking white women just because whites needed a reason for killing them. The next thing surprising me was the soldier in WW1. I didn’t know that in WW1, blacks weren’t acknowledged to be soldiers. Whites portrayed them as just servants in the war and entertainment for them.
Watching this movie made me realize how stereotypes are not funny and should be limited in the media. For example, last few month, the Red Cross's Pool Safety was making racist mistake. Most of the black kids in the banner do the wrong rules of the pool while the while kids are following rules. Nowadays, the society are improving, so not all of people will look and