This week we watched the trailer for "The Butler" and I had to go out and rent it that night. I watched it and it was so interesting! I love movies like this, that actually show the past and what colored people had to go through to survive and make the population the it is today. The movie displayed a really interesting view of racism. They had the father that made it possible for his family to live the way they did but still had troubles with racism. Just like how we talked about double consciousness with people's life styles.
I advise everyone to watch this movie to really understand how hard it was, and even is now, to live as a colored man or woman. I chose this picture to portray double consciousness because I thought the abstract thought behind this was incredible. He is a free man but is locked up with in his thoughts because of how society treats and thinks of black people.
This is a GREAT media source. This picture helps not only me but I am sure many people to understand what it really is to have an effect of double consciousness. Many people have to hide the hurt and what they really feel inside, even if we as the people of the world don't think that racism or something else is really that bad, but it is we just don't see it because a lot of people hide it within themselves.
ReplyDeleteI watched the Butler on the plane ride home from Cameroon this past Winterim. I agree that it is an amazing movie! The leader of our trip is African American and grew up in Cameroon before moving here for college and a career. He told us about the way people look at him and act toward him in both contexts. I talk more about this in my blog for this week, so feel free to check it out :)
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