Crash

In sociology we watched Crash, which to be honest both opened my eyes and depressed me. The part that really upset me was that people could not rid themselves of racism, everyone was racist, and many of the people lived up to their stereotype. It makes me wonder how we are supposed to move for the better if we can't really target our racism and rid ourselves of it. This movie made me think of all the stereotypes we make instinctively without even thinking about them and how other people also judge before getting to know a person. One example is that once when my family went on the L-train, this black woman started ranting to my brother about how my dad is the one oppressing her and that it is his fault for all the injustice in the world. She was able to look at my dad and decide that because he is a white male that he is unfair. I also remembered how once at a fancy restaurant when a hispanic man was pouring my grandma's water. She wanted more so she looked at him and said, "mas". This was horrible in a couple of ways: 1) he spoke way more english than she did spanish 2)she only saw him as a hispanic person instead of an American. This realization that races will never see eye to eye was the part that really stuck in my mind.