I was shocked from the beginning of this movie. The white man can do whatever he wants to black people even killed them. After he did this, he just walked away. There are two other scenes in the movie showed black people were hanged in the street, and it seems like this kind of situation is quite common at that time.
The thing most impacted me as I watched this film is how hard Louis tried to get equal rights for colored people. He joined a group and tried to fight with inequality. They had practiced how to stand their ground when they received curl treatment, like beat and torture. But when the group leader asked Louis “what you want to say about all of this?” during the practice, Louis said “Yes, I am a nigger”. This impressed me because …show more content…
For example, when people sit in the hotel’s bar, they said “nigger boys in school with white girls. Whoever heard of such a thing?” It sounds ridiculous at that time when people heard black people and white people share the same place. There is another very detailed example in the movie. After Cecli broke the window and stole the food, the black manager allowed him to work in the hotel because he is pity for Cecli. When Cecli served a woman and accidently touched her purse in the table, the women immediately took her purse away and looked at Cecli very angry. If the server is a white man, I think the woman’s behavior would be totally …show more content…
He did not experience the same thing as his father did, so in the early age, Louis did not get that much influence of equal rights in his family. At that time, he was proud of his dad because Cecli worked in a nice hotel and could support the whole family. After he knew the Mamie Till’s event, he started change his mind and wanted to fight with equal rights for colored people. When he knew his father was going to work in the White House as a butler, he could not understand because he thought black people should not serve white people anymore, and they need stand up and fight for it. He was embarrassed of his father’s position while others were celebrating for Cecli’s promotion. When Louis moved to Tennessee, he joined Freedom Riders and Black Panthers to involve in the equal rights for colored people. Cecli could not understand his son and thought his behaviors were dangerous. He thought his son’s behaviors were ridiculous and he actually went to jail several times to bail his son in
The thing most impacted me as I watched this film is how hard Louis tried to get equal rights for colored people. He joined a group and tried to fight with inequality. They had practiced how to stand their ground when they received curl treatment, like beat and torture. But when the group leader asked Louis “what you want to say about all of this?” during the practice, Louis said “Yes, I am a nigger”. This impressed me because …show more content…
For example, when people sit in the hotel’s bar, they said “nigger boys in school with white girls. Whoever heard of such a thing?” It sounds ridiculous at that time when people heard black people and white people share the same place. There is another very detailed example in the movie. After Cecli broke the window and stole the food, the black manager allowed him to work in the hotel because he is pity for Cecli. When Cecli served a woman and accidently touched her purse in the table, the women immediately took her purse away and looked at Cecli very angry. If the server is a white man, I think the woman’s behavior would be totally …show more content…
He did not experience the same thing as his father did, so in the early age, Louis did not get that much influence of equal rights in his family. At that time, he was proud of his dad because Cecli worked in a nice hotel and could support the whole family. After he knew the Mamie Till’s event, he started change his mind and wanted to fight with equal rights for colored people. When he knew his father was going to work in the White House as a butler, he could not understand because he thought black people should not serve white people anymore, and they need stand up and fight for it. He was embarrassed of his father’s position while others were celebrating for Cecli’s promotion. When Louis moved to Tennessee, he joined Freedom Riders and Black Panthers to involve in the equal rights for colored people. Cecli could not understand his son and thought his behaviors were dangerous. He thought his son’s behaviors were ridiculous and he actually went to jail several times to bail his son in