This
movie reflection is the crime with mystery film named “Mississippi Burning”,
directed by Allen Parker in 1988 and based on the real-life in 1964,
Mississippi, US. In this movie, the main theme is the “Racism” in America’s history.
Africa
Americans were brought to the US to be sold into slavery, but now they are the
largest single minority group in the US. The White community has indeed a long
and dirty history of racist crime. “Racism” is the belief and/or behavior that
a certain race is inherently superior or inferior to others in consciously
and/or unconsciously. The White community has indeed a long and dirty history
of racist crime. “Racism” is the belief and/or behavior that a certain race is
inherently superior or inferior to others in consciously and/or unconsciously.
In
general, many people have some wrong negative stereotypes on black people, such
as, they will be stupid, irresponsible, violent, poor, and/or dirty and so
forth.
While
the Whites think that they are superior beyond race, the African-Americans (was
called as an American Negros in the film) have the racial inferiority even all
humans are “equal” regardless of skin. Therefore, in those days, white people
think that different individuals should be treated differently according to
their race. So, the African-Americans take granted for the attacked physically
and emotionally by the Whites. Segregation is the separation of different
people based on something like race, religion, or gender. In this film,
needless to say, whites and colored would have different schools, different
stores, different facilities, different colors as above the picture.
Ethnocentrism
also occurs when some people hold their group is better than other groups. Some
ethnocentrism is good to get positive culture identity, but too much group
pride can result in a negative force like discrimination via violence and
segregation.
These
are the seven primary emotions human have; anger, disgust, fear, happiness,
surprise, sadness, and contempt. There are many variables involved why people
get angry, how people get angry or how long will people angry last after
experiencing a threatening, hurtful or unexpected situation. On the other hand,
anger sometimes can be a good thing when we express our negative feelings can
lead to find the solutions. However, in this film, the blacks’ are expressing
the fear as anger. But, they are afraid of anger and of expressing their anger.
According
to social learning theory states that people can learn by observing the
behavior of others and the outcomes of those behaviors. In the film, although
the Civil Right’s movements have helped to create an “equal” America, the
mentality of superiority over the races that is passed on from generation to
generation still remains a major cause of racism. Many African Americans
children and adolescents can get the inferiority and negative self-image
throughout the differences between whites and colored. For example,
KKK
(Ku Klux Klan) is the far-right organization of racist in the US. The purpose of this organization resurrected white domination,
targeting blacks by
terrorism, murder, violence, lynching,
assault, cross burning, and so forth. Thus, the KKK
itself already includes the whole meaning of prejudice, discrimination, and
racism.
To
build a racial harmony and justice in multicultural society, people should
learn acceptance and respect for all other people regardless of racial and
cultural background.
