Geoffrey Ofori-Dwomfuo
Diversity and Social Justice
Glenn Cassidy


After watching the movie, Crash, written and directed by Paul Haggis which was mainly based on people prejudicing others because of their race, religion, class or identity. Paul Huggis combines a variety of situations in which people have been victims and also culprits of these acts. He also displays the consequences of being stereotypical towards other people. Crash is a movie which makes one recognize the mistakes they execute in their everyday life. 
 At the beginning of the scene, Jean Cabot holds tight onto her husband because she saw two black men walking towards her. She feared something bad was going to happen but she hesitated to say anything because she feared it was going to turn against her as being racist. On the other hand the two black men were complaining about how the whites were always prejudicing them as criminals and always looking down upon them. All of a sudden they pull out a gun and does exactly what Jean expected them to do. This increased believe on her opinion on blacks. One might infer that the two black men either gave up and accepted the identity whites imposed on them or just robbed Jean and her husband because they felt blacks were and are still being cheated.
Not quite long after the robbery Jean had a suspicion of a Latino man who was brought to change her door lock. She supposed he was a gang member and an ex-convict because he had a tattoo and  was dressed improperly. This time she followed her thoughts and expectations because she wasn't going repeat the mistake she did when she saw the two black men, she suspected of being criminals, yet didn't say a word. Unfortunately, during this event her thoughts and expectations were wrong, he wasn't a gang member nor ex-convict. He felt broken upon hearing her words.
Jeans attitude prevented her from making friends because she always prejudiced people by the conditioning she was given. She only trusted and felt comfortable with people of class. She falls from the stairs and the only person to come to her aid was her maid who she treated poorly because she felt superior over her maid and felt the maid never did her work properly. It was only later at the end Jean realized how important her maid was.