This week in class we watched a movie called Crash. This movie portrayed intense examples of racism in every day life. Racism is a socially constructed concept, apparent in every day situations, it's something we have gotten used to seeing and hearing. The movie pointed out obvious stereotypes, when most of the time they were completely wrong. The locksmith was seen as a gangbanger for merely being mexican, when he was truly a loving father and husband trying to make a good life for his family. Implicit racism appeared when the off duty cop was in the car with a black guy who reached into his pocket; without even thinking, his implicit assumptions took action and killed him. The movie goes to show how dangerous racist act can really be. Implicit racism is more dangerous than explicit, though explicit is still hurtful. With implicit racism, a person may try to avoid their racist thoughts, but instead they build up and soon may act spontaneously based on all of that implicit racism that collected over time. I enjoyed how this movie played with your mind. For example, the china man in the beginning seemed to simply be making a business deal for some company. Little did we know he was actually human trafficking. It's funny how people shock you, in the movie as well as in real life. Ludacris lets the enslaved people free at the end of the movie, when the whole time we think money is more important to him. When people say hurtful things or seem to have strong feelings about racism, it doesn't always mean that they truly feel that way, but merely feel that they are expected to act that way or act out of anger/frustration. Everyone grows to be their own person, and though there are influences by society, they act as individuals and cannot always be categorized into groups.