Color of Fear

The documentary, The Color of Fear, was about a group of men on a weekend getaway. They take part in an outspoken dialouge on ethnicity and race. The documentary features two African Americans, two Latin Americans, two Asian Americans and two whites. Towards the beginning of it all, the groups did not communicate or get across to each other, until the topic of "privilege" came up. The white men, not understanding the advantages they had in society became ignorant, while the Africans Americans got infuriated at how oblivious they were on the subject matter. They told the white men that African Americans and white men start off in completely different locations. For an African American to get the respect that an average white man gets takes far more work. Another situation the African American rose was how the word "American" was used in societies. He mentioned that in order for someone to call themselves "American" they had to sacrifice their roots, their ethnicity and their identities. On the third day into the social experiment, the white man was found crying because he could not relate to the people around him. He noticed how hes on a higher social level and on that social level, there is a massive amount of privilege. In this documentary, I can relate to the angry black man the most because he was getting aggravated that his point was not getting across how he wanted it to. Everything being said, this film blames white privileged men for the nations problems.