Crash

This week in class we watched the film Crash. It's about different people of different races and how their lives interact with one another. This film shows how race can be intentional and unintentional, for example in the film two black people get pulled over by a white male and the police officer sexually harasses the black women when she is being searched. Later on the women gets into a car accident and the man who touched her ended up being the on who saves her life after she refuses him to touch her. It is ironic because he knows what he did was wrong and he was the one who saved her. Another example in the movie of unintentional racism is when the off duty cop is give the black guy on the street a ride and then they start arguing and the black man says that he doesn't wana see what he has in his pocket implying it was a gun when really the man had nothing dangerous at all. The off duty officer ended up shooting him and it killed him, eventhough the black man seemed dangerous it was really the white man who was a threat. So eventhough people try and avoid racism it is always there in the back of everyone's mind.