Crash

This week in sociology, we watched the movie Crash. The movie showed different races that ran into all types of problems, all involving each other. It was so interesting to see how racist still lies within our society whether we want to ignore it or not. During the movie, a white couple was walking to their car and the wife had seen two black men on the street. Automatically, her instinct was to hold onto her husband closer because she had feelings of paranoia. The two black men that were dressed like every other person on the sidewalk seemed like they weren't about dealing with trouble. But, having that stereo-type about black people, they ended up hijacking the white couple's car and getting away with it. We can't stop racism even if we tried, because everywhere we go it lies somewhere underneath it all. It's unavoidable which is the worst part. Maybe we can't stop racism, but we can always try taking smaller steps toward positive expectations of one another. We should erase all stereo-types of all races and start being mindful of all races. The person you see down the street, may be more than one race than they appear and you can't categorize them just because of what they look like; that's not fair.