Color of Fear reflection

The Color of Fear movie really made me think. It made think about how white perceive racism and the privileges they are born with. In the film it showed the white privileges that

David Christensen had. He thought saying that he doesn't have a problem with Blacks, Asians, and Latinos would change the problem. He came out and said that everyone has a color so naively thinking that he's right. He’s not getting the main point that all of the other races were put down by his ancestors and are still being put down to this day. He think one person can change the fact that we are being put down and thrown under bus not just because of our skin but where we and our ancestors came from. A lot of the things he was saying was coming from guilt and regret of what his ancestors did to all of these people. He’s still proud of being white. In a movie I watched in Mr.Riley's class a documentary called Hidden Colors. David Banner said he ask a white person if they were racist and he said no he then asked if he if he would do anything to bring the black community up and give up what you have to help us out he said no. So this shows that all whites may not be racist but they still are benefitting because of their racist ancestors. Also you can be subtly racist if you laugh at racist jokes as i read in the book(Jan Armino).

    I also got something out of the whole talk about being American. In the film they talk about how the country is so confused on what being American really is. Americans are people from the Americas. Everyone from the United states strip people of being call american even being from North America or South America. Such as Mexicans, they are American. They are from North America but we don't consider them American. They also discuss the slight similarity of being white, American and human. These words are so closely related because this is how white americans see themselves. And by how whites saw other races they thought they were the only pure humans. This is where we get the close relation between those words and how if you are not one of them you are not perfect in the eyes of the whites.

    I also saw that I felt a sense of a relation with Victor because he said that he feel out of his comfort zone when around whites because of what they did to other races and how we are treated now. He and Loren also believe that stereotypes take away from especially black. In Riley's class we discussed how whites try to go around saying the N word even though saying other words that can mean the same thing targeting blacks such as words as thug or too street. These are stereotypes that take away from blacks just because stereotypes that whites make about us. Victor also made a good point about how whites more comfortable around whites or people with similar skin as them. He said that he may have more advantages than Loren just because he's lighter than him. And this might cause conflict between them and this is another way whites keep blacks against each other at all times. So this video said a lot to me and kept my mind open to all things they were talking about.