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The same goes for terrorism acts and Muslims even though we know that the man who caused the Oklahoma tragedy was very much a Christian white American. Racism has various faces and forms and each one as ugly as it sounds. It would be completely wrong to say that racism is an inherent trait. It is actually the reaction of people to the social consciousness around them. If I see blacks projected in a certain way every time I turn the TV on, I am more likely to develop a false and distorted view of blacks. In order to remove this kind of negative education from our system, we need to work at all levels. Racism is a serious problem and one that must be consciously eradicated from our societies. It is not only causing hurdles for the victims, but is also creating social disparities that are definitely not good for anyone because resentment of one group can become trouble for another.

Crash is a movie that deals with the subject of racism in the post-2001 America. It deals with the subject in a very sensitive manner and delicately touches upon racism as various groups face it. It brings people face-to-face with their own prejudices and this confrontation helps them grow and become more tolerant. Even where this growth doesn't occur, at least the viewers are given...

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We learn that often people with quiet biased view are just as bigoted as people with extreme prejudices. We also learn that often help comes from the very people we had excluded from our group. This film seriously educated. It offers a lesson in cultural diversity tolerance and explains that often our worst fears about a group are nothing but baseless suspicions. What I really liked about the movie was the scene where Officer Hansen shoots Peter mistakenly assuming that he was pulling out a gun when he was actually trying to pull put a picture that he wanted to show him. What is interesting is that these two people appeared the least prejudiced. Peter never believed in racism while Officer Hansen often accused others of being prejudiced when he himself was as bigoted as anyone else.
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Jerome Miller, 1996. Search and Destroy: African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System. NY: Cambridge University Press (Paul Street, 'Race, Prison, and Poverty', Z Magazine, July/August 2001).

Farai Chideya, 'Don't Believe the Hype'. Penguin Books, 1995

Street, 2001

Miller, 1996, 42

Chideya,…

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Jerome Miller, 1996. Search and Destroy: African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System. NY: Cambridge University Press (Paul Street, 'Race, Prison, and Poverty', Z Magazine, July/August 2001).

Farai Chideya, 'Don't Believe the Hype'. Penguin Books, 1995

Street, 2001

Miller, 1996, 42
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