Crash

The movie Crash takes a perspective on racism, which points out an accurate observation of people complaining about racial discrimination while contributing to the same common racial stereotypes. The movie shows reality through all of the characters. One of the scenes that prove the contradiction is near the beginning when Ludacris’ character Anthony complains about the woman having blind fear for two “black guys” in a white community. When he criticizes her actions to his friend, he says that they should be the ones scared for being the only two black people in an “over-caffeinated white community supervised by the trigger happy LAPD.” Anthony then asks, “So why aren’t we scared?” His friend replies, “Because we have guns?” The two pull out their guns and steal a Lincoln Navigator from the white woman and her husband. In this scene they express their disgust with racial discrimination, yet they conform directly to the black stereotype.

The characters in this movie each contribute to their racial stereotypes by contradicting their own issues with the current situation of racism in the U.S. They tend to feel unfaired against and the victims of a negative view toward minorities. Unfortunately, people don’t try to move away from these racial stereotypical actions. Because of their decisions, people contradict their own complaints about society, continuing to match the stereotype of their own race.