Crash

This week in Sociology we watched the movie Crash. Out of all the movies we have watched this semester this was by far my favorite. Race is a huge aspect throughout this movie. After watching this movie, it made me realize whether we know it or not, we are all racist whether it be explicit, or implicit.  During one of the scenes of this movie a cop pulled two black people over, because they were black driving in a nice car, in a nice neighborhood. He publicly harassed them to the point where his partner felt uncomfortable and asked to be reassigned. Yet when his partner was in the car with a black teen, when the teen reached into his pocket he automatically thought he was pulling out a weapon so he shot him "first" before the black teen could shoot him. Little did he know that the teen wasn't pulling out anything close to a weapon at all, but he actually was pulling out a religious figure that he kept with him in his pocket. What the cop did showed implicit racism. Even though that cop was trying to hard to not be outwardly racist, the fact is he still was because race shapes us, and as much as we try to not believe it, it's always in the back of our minds. Even though our society is obsessed with race, towards the end of the movie you began to see that all the different races depended on one another in different ways. Like the persian man thought of the little girl as his angel, and the white woman realized that her true friend was her asian housekeeper. It just shows that even though our society is obsessed with race, we need it.