Film Summary: The Shadow Of Hate

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Reading and Response Paper # 3:
Film # 1 – The Shadow of Hate
Summary of Key points:
1. The film shows the history of Americas issue surrounding intolerance of other groups.
2. The film shows similarities and differences between cases of intolerance across the United States since colonization.
Personal Reflective Statement: The idea that historically America is built on intolerance is something I find very sad but very true even though America was built on the idea of “freedom”. The film mentions that the idea that the declaration of independence is “just a piece of paper”( Charles Guggenheim, “The
Shadow of Hate”), And when you look at the history behind the document it defiantly was written with a specific group of people in mind, white

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