White ignorance has led to the ongoing cycle of brutality against blacks in America. The movie Rosewood exemplifies how established cultural prejudices can lead violent acts caused by fear. This fear made by racial preconceptions, make room for the imagination of the individual that allows such bigotry to exist. Similarly, as Dr. J.W. Wiley puts it, “racism is largely predicated on unfamiliarity with the “Other”” (Wiley 121). The movie Rosewood recreates the massacre that took place in 1922 in a town called Rosewood. In the movie the audience is exposed to extreme acts of violence generated by false claims that fit a stereotypical racist ideology. It was the whites ignorance that led their “seek for justice” more into terroristic actions.
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Some whites after slavery still believed the notion that they had ownership over black women’s bodies. One reason why white men believed in this to be true was due to their ignorance towards black men. Angela Davis wrote in Women Race & Class, “If Black men have their eyes on white women as sexual objects, then Black women must certainly welcome the sexual attentions of white men.” (Davis 182). Black women were violently preyed upon by white men. Sadly there's no repercussions against white men who rape black women. Thus made Sylvester the only protector his cousin had. This failed system of justice is built up by the ignorance that made blacks …show more content…
To put it in other terms, J.A. Rogers states “Black and white in the South are like Siamese Twins who, while they are physiologically distinct beings, are so joined that one of the twins could not harm the other without harming himself, or benefit the other without benefiting himself” (Rogers 697-698). Certainly this was present in Rosewood, when John Wright was selling of ammunition to the white men. Breaking it down, Wright was killing his own customers just so he can be accepted by the white racist that live in his town. The dependence of races have for each other was also demonstrated by Fanny Taylor. Fanny relied on Aunt Sarah for the chores she does around the house. Back then as AUTHOR describes; “The lower middle-class housewife, who, having dreamed of the luxury of a maid, found opportunity staring her in the face in the form of the Negro women pressed to the wall by poverty, starvation and discrimination”(265). Later on in the movie we see the sickness Fanny Taylor expresses when she finds out Aunt Sarah died. This is a big wake up call for Fanny as she see’s what her destructive actions have
Some whites after slavery still believed the notion that they had ownership over black women’s bodies. One reason why white men believed in this to be true was due to their ignorance towards black men. Angela Davis wrote in Women Race & Class, “If Black men have their eyes on white women as sexual objects, then Black women must certainly welcome the sexual attentions of white men.” (Davis 182). Black women were violently preyed upon by white men. Sadly there's no repercussions against white men who rape black women. Thus made Sylvester the only protector his cousin had. This failed system of justice is built up by the ignorance that made blacks …show more content…
To put it in other terms, J.A. Rogers states “Black and white in the South are like Siamese Twins who, while they are physiologically distinct beings, are so joined that one of the twins could not harm the other without harming himself, or benefit the other without benefiting himself” (Rogers 697-698). Certainly this was present in Rosewood, when John Wright was selling of ammunition to the white men. Breaking it down, Wright was killing his own customers just so he can be accepted by the white racist that live in his town. The dependence of races have for each other was also demonstrated by Fanny Taylor. Fanny relied on Aunt Sarah for the chores she does around the house. Back then as AUTHOR describes; “The lower middle-class housewife, who, having dreamed of the luxury of a maid, found opportunity staring her in the face in the form of the Negro women pressed to the wall by poverty, starvation and discrimination”(265). Later on in the movie we see the sickness Fanny Taylor expresses when she finds out Aunt Sarah died. This is a big wake up call for Fanny as she see’s what her destructive actions have