Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Crash

Ludicacris's character (during the beginning of the movie) was talking with his friend about how white people automatically think him a thief just by the way he looks, and the color of his skin.
The young caucasian couple (the woman mainly) was walking down the sidewalk with her husband, and coincidentally locked her arm or her hand within her husbands as soon as both her and Ludicaris made eye contact. The young man (played by Ludicaris) showed that to his friend as fear stemmed from racisim. He told his friend that she thought he was a theif/gansta and held on to her husband out of fear, not love. Ironically, the young man and his friend stole the car from that couple only a few minutes later

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Last Social class blog

The privileges that wealth carries are seemingly immense, and they certainly give you great head start. It's a get out of jail card, a "hall pass", and also a nearly impenetrable safety bubble. When you have the money to back you up in a court case, depending on how clean the stem is, you can pay the judge or a member of the jury for your innocence, and if you do wind up in jail, you or your family can literally pay your way out of jail. Also, unlike the rest of the flock, you don't always have to justify your cause, like in school, a student "hall monitor" wont question a faculty member, they know that faculty are superior..but another student on the other hand, they'll ask to see their pass, because they're smaller. Nothing can really hurt you when you're rich, you have access to great hospital care, you won't necessarily be alarmed by a slowing down of a business, something breaks, it's fixed. Being wealthy is almost like being handed immortality.