Us Against The World Film Analysis

“Achievement has no color” (Abraham Lincoln), a quote that has arguably changed the nation and can be perceived in the Andrea Keuhnel short film “Us Against The World”. What Abraham Lincoln implied in the quote mentioned above is that a person’s skin pigmentation should have no effect on an individual’s potential to succeed. This conjecture can be seen in Keuhnel’s film because Cordia School’s basketball team mainly consisted of African- American students who were being oppressed due to their skin color and pushed to fail, despite their actual ability to do well in basketball. They were even beginning to believe that they were incapable of succeeding since people were sentencing them into profiles that are demeaning to their ethnicity. Due to the injustice racial profiling, Andrea Kuehnel created the show “Us …show more content…
Rodrick Rhodes, who also was a victim of racial profiling and discrimination, was one of the few people who believed that these kids had a bright future ahead of them and was determined to prove that to them. All their supporters were persistent in trying to stop the racism against them because they witnessed how this can truly affect their future, for example; Ramon “Momo” Mercado was so tired of being oppressed that he began to believe that he was not going to succeed in life. He began to not show up to games until Rhodes talked to him and made him realize that he had the potential to do something big with his life if he never gave up. That is exactly what the team did; they stuck by one another and proved all the stereotypes in racial profiling wrong. They showed the public that racial profiling is a damning way of categorizing people and that those demeaning slurs about their ethnicity that are embedded in the profiles do not shape one’s