A movie that has really stood out to me for this week’s film review is a rather new movie called, Straight Outta Compton. They go into so much depth with the racial corruption that partook in the mid 1980’s. It revolves around a hip-hop music group known as N.W.A. The members include Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, DJ Yella and MC Ren. It takes place in the streets of Compton, California, as well as many other cities that they traveled during their initial N.W.A. Tour. All of these men share similar characteristics, which pertain to the diversity wheel, including being black, young to middle aged, non-disabled, male, heterosexual, low income, lower class, and little education. Although they are men, they are still black men who live in the lower
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Police, who were mainly white, were at the top of the food chain back then, and everyone else fell below. In the film, they are continuously showing how the police, who were shown mostly as white individuals with the exception of one being a black man, were trying to control every aspect of the streets. They held all the power, and most of the time, they were more corrupt than the black innocent men they were harassing. An example of this in the film includes police constantly searching the N.W.A. men for drugs, weapons, etc., just for walking in the streets. Although, I believe most of the policemen that were represented in this film were taking part in the paths of least resistance. Likewise, Johnson also touches base on how groups of hatred are only a piece of the problem with privilege; “They are participating in something larger than themselves that, among other things, steers them toward certain targets for their rage. It’s no accident that their hatred is rarely directed at privileged groups but instead at those who are culturally devalued and excluded…. In choosing targets they follow the paths of least resistance built into a society that everyone participates in, that everyone makes happen, regardless of how they feel or what they intend” (86). With this in mind, the policemen are just following the actions of others. Some may intend harm, but it does not mean that they all go into a situation with a cynical
Police, who were mainly white, were at the top of the food chain back then, and everyone else fell below. In the film, they are continuously showing how the police, who were shown mostly as white individuals with the exception of one being a black man, were trying to control every aspect of the streets. They held all the power, and most of the time, they were more corrupt than the black innocent men they were harassing. An example of this in the film includes police constantly searching the N.W.A. men for drugs, weapons, etc., just for walking in the streets. Although, I believe most of the policemen that were represented in this film were taking part in the paths of least resistance. Likewise, Johnson also touches base on how groups of hatred are only a piece of the problem with privilege; “They are participating in something larger than themselves that, among other things, steers them toward certain targets for their rage. It’s no accident that their hatred is rarely directed at privileged groups but instead at those who are culturally devalued and excluded…. In choosing targets they follow the paths of least resistance built into a society that everyone participates in, that everyone makes happen, regardless of how they feel or what they intend” (86). With this in mind, the policemen are just following the actions of others. Some may intend harm, but it does not mean that they all go into a situation with a cynical