White Man's Burden

In class today, there were four things about the movie clip that we watched that really surprised me, making me think twice. When I first see the maid serving her master and his friends outside, I actually had to look twice at her to realize that she was white, not black. Another thing that really made me think was in the factory, almost all the workers were white. I hadn't thought that I believed that most factory workers were black, but I was still surprised to see that they were all white, except for the foreman, and he was doing a higher level job than the other workers. Another thing that made me think was how when the white character is driving through the rich neighborhood everyone is black. There were no white people anywhere, and none of the blacks would look at him.  The last thing that really surprised, was the racial profiling of the police in the movie. I was shocked at the way they treated John Travolta's character. They thought he was a criminal, but they didn't check before they basically started beating him up, and arresting him. It made me wonder if, in the real world, that really happens, like with white police officers and black suspects, which made me think back to Blink, and I realized that it does happen, which really made me think about the race issues our country still has.