http://youtube.com/watch?v=P9ZgndfzZiw
The Amazing Racist is a man by the name of Ari Shaffir, and he is a comedian who likes to live dangerously. He had a series of short videos that he produced, and these videos were him performing racist acts towards others. There are videos of him being racist towards Asians, Muslims, Mexicans, and Black. Throughout the four videos Shaffir is shown doing outrageous things to the people of this descent. He films himself going to places such as Watts in East Los Angeles a place that is heavily black, and the video shows him driving through the streets of Watts wearing an entire Ku Klux Klan outfit. He encounters people on the street one black man even throws a brick at his car before Shaffir high tails it out of their. Later in the same video he is shown taking his KKK robe to a dry cleaner where the clerk is black and obviously becomes hostile about the situation. Throughout the entire black video he is shown wearing his robe around gas stations and dry cleaners everywhere. In the video about Mexicans, he is once again in L.A. this time he walks into a Mexican restaurant wearing an authentic Mexican outfit. He has his mini guitar with him strumming away and singing to the workers of the Mexican restaurant. He goes on giving the men a hard time by telling them not to work to hard and to take more breaks. Later in the video he goes to find illegal immigrant workers, and tells them he has a job for them to do, they hop in his truck and he drives them to the local immigration office and obviously the men take off running. You get the idea of these videos.
This relates to the class because it deals with racism as a whole on an everyday type basis. This guy goes around driving to different places acting like an idea trying to get himself into trouble. He wants to see if he can get a rise out of these people so he starts agitating them. This goes back to the movie ethnic notions. It deals with how people treat others, who do not look like them. They do not treat people the same because they are of a different race. So, he thinks that it is funny to do these mean things to other people but it really isn't just like in the film when the black people were treated differently, like the man who couldn't even get into a bar without going with a white person. All of these ideologies relate back to each other.
Personally, I think this guy is an idiot, and I want to see the video where he gets his ass kicked. He deserves it. He needs to get a pounding because this is no way for a person to act.
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Glory
The movie Glory is based on Colonel Robert Shaw leading the first group of black soldiers into war. Shaw, who is played by Matthew Broderick, goes against all of his orders and against all odds to lead his soldiers into war. The soldiers, who were all former slaves, and all of them never been to war, and most of them illiterate had to learn to fight before they were prepared to go to war. As the war goes on the north decides that they want to make an experiment out of the newly acquired black volunteer soldiers. So, they hire an all white officer corps to train the men. The platoon has many issues that they have to deal with throughout the movie that include not having supplies, and not getting the respect they deserve to go into war. They want to prove that they can fight just as good as the white soldiers can, and they are out to prove that point.
This goes back to Chapter 8 of Zinn. It goes towards the point that Shaw is saying he is one of the good ones. He is special because he is the leader of the blacks, so he isn’t bad. He is one of the good guys, so he is different. Although it is not directly stated in the movie I feel that it is strongly implied. He and his officers lead a group of all black troops, and the troops are made up as a joke to northern army. They never expected anything out of the 54th, but they were in for a big surprise.
This was an outstanding movie, another one of my favorites. Matthew Broderick does a great job in this movie portraying his character. I also think that it displays a sense of truth. I was not around during the time of the Civil War, but I bet that there was something like this really going on during this time. The people of the war found volunteer blacks to create a platoon that needs to get ready for the war. It raises eyebrows seeing what people can do when they are faced with adversity, and when they have their backs against a wall.
Don Imus
(CBS/AP) CBS announced Thursday that it has fired Don Imus from his radio program, following a week of uproar over the radio host's derogatory comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team.
"There has been much discussion of the effect language like this has on our young people, particularly young women of color trying to make their way in this society," CBS President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said in announcing the decision.
One of those discussions took place at noon today with a coalition of leaders from the civil rights and women's movements, who said it was time for Imus to go, reports CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes.
"It's important that we stand with the women of Rutgers who are deeply hurt by the highly insensitive comments of Don Imus," said Marc Morial, CEO of the National Urban League.
It's a stunning fall for one of the nation's most prominent broadcasters. Time Magazine once named the cantankerous host as one of the 25 Most Influential People in America, and he is a member of the National Broadcaster Hall of Fame.
But Imus found himself at the center of a storm after he called members of the Rutgers team "nappy-headed hos" last week. Protests ensued, and one by one, numerous sponsors pulled their ads from Imus' show. On Wednesday, MSNBC dropped its simulcast of the program.
This was an article written about Don Imus, a radio broadcaster, who at the time was broadcasting news about the NCAA Women’s Final Four. The team he was referring to by calling them, “nappy headed hoes.” Was the Rutgers women who went on to lose in the championship game to Tennessee. His comments about the team found himself in a serious bind. He ended up getting fired from his job, he lost a lot of money for the company he was broadcasting for, and he caused a lot of commotion throughout the nation, with not just basketball fans, but African-Americans alike. He caught it from all angles after his comments, he received threats and hate mail, he got it all. I chose this article because it shows the idiocy that people have today. It shows how people do not think before they speak, and obviously don’t care about anyone but themselves.
This relates to the film we watched Ethnic Notions. It goes back to the names that the people on that film were called, and how they were treated. They were not treated like humans in the movie. In the movie the whites treated the blacks, as if they had no feelings. They treated them as if they were not going to get upset if they said the things that they did. Similar to the Imus situation, Imus thought that the women would not get upset. He thought that it would not offend them, when in reality it did. And now he is out of a job and all because he did not think before he spoke. Also now, the coach for Rutgers and the players are still affected , and have not completely forgiven Imus for his comments. Just like how some African Americans have not forgiven some white people for the ways that they treated blacks.
Don Imus put himself into a very tight situation with his comments, and in the end he dug a hole to deep. He could not get himself out of the mess that he had gotten himself into.
"CBS Fires Don Imus Over Racial Slur." CBS News. 12 Apr. 2007. 7 Oct. 2007.
"There has been much discussion of the effect language like this has on our young people, particularly young women of color trying to make their way in this society," CBS President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said in announcing the decision.
One of those discussions took place at noon today with a coalition of leaders from the civil rights and women's movements, who said it was time for Imus to go, reports CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes.
"It's important that we stand with the women of Rutgers who are deeply hurt by the highly insensitive comments of Don Imus," said Marc Morial, CEO of the National Urban League.
It's a stunning fall for one of the nation's most prominent broadcasters. Time Magazine once named the cantankerous host as one of the 25 Most Influential People in America, and he is a member of the National Broadcaster Hall of Fame.
But Imus found himself at the center of a storm after he called members of the Rutgers team "nappy-headed hos" last week. Protests ensued, and one by one, numerous sponsors pulled their ads from Imus' show. On Wednesday, MSNBC dropped its simulcast of the program.
This was an article written about Don Imus, a radio broadcaster, who at the time was broadcasting news about the NCAA Women’s Final Four. The team he was referring to by calling them, “nappy headed hoes.” Was the Rutgers women who went on to lose in the championship game to Tennessee. His comments about the team found himself in a serious bind. He ended up getting fired from his job, he lost a lot of money for the company he was broadcasting for, and he caused a lot of commotion throughout the nation, with not just basketball fans, but African-Americans alike. He caught it from all angles after his comments, he received threats and hate mail, he got it all. I chose this article because it shows the idiocy that people have today. It shows how people do not think before they speak, and obviously don’t care about anyone but themselves.
This relates to the film we watched Ethnic Notions. It goes back to the names that the people on that film were called, and how they were treated. They were not treated like humans in the movie. In the movie the whites treated the blacks, as if they had no feelings. They treated them as if they were not going to get upset if they said the things that they did. Similar to the Imus situation, Imus thought that the women would not get upset. He thought that it would not offend them, when in reality it did. And now he is out of a job and all because he did not think before he spoke. Also now, the coach for Rutgers and the players are still affected , and have not completely forgiven Imus for his comments. Just like how some African Americans have not forgiven some white people for the ways that they treated blacks.
Don Imus put himself into a very tight situation with his comments, and in the end he dug a hole to deep. He could not get himself out of the mess that he had gotten himself into.
"CBS Fires Don Imus Over Racial Slur." CBS News. 12 Apr. 2007. 7 Oct. 2007
Media Portfolio-Remember the Titans.
The movie Remember the Titans was a film that was released in 2000. It is a movie that is based on a true story, and it is the story of a high school football team in Alexandria, Virginia. The setting is in 1971 and the high school T.C. Williams was desegregated just before summer camp was ready to take place. T.C. Williams hires a black head coach played by Denzel Washington, to take over as head coach of the football team that turns out to be half white, and half black. Coach Boone (Washington) juggles racial hatred from the locals and racial debates on his own football team about who should be starting and who belongs where. The team starts off the summer camp with a lot of problems still relating back to racial tension, but throughout the camp with a lot of fighting and arguing, the last night before the camp was to be over, they came together on the field. Then, once they returned home from camp the town, and the players parents thought that the players had been, “brainwashed,” because they came home singing and chanting alongside one another. There is another point in the movie when a restaurant owner does not allow the black football players to eat as his restaurant. The team showed adversity by blocking out the problems off the field to deal with the problems on the field, and in the end going on to win a state championship and finishing their season at a perfect 13-0. The movie overall portrays a lot of racial tension and the problems that arouse from it.
This movie relates to the classes first reading which was by Zinn and how Columbus came to America in search of gold for his country. The chapter was about Columbus taking over the country and doing what he needed to do to get his job done. This movie also shows that image. Coach Boone came into the school with his back against the wall, and he did what he had to do to get his job done. He did not care about race or skin color or anything, he wanted to win and he was going to play the players who were going to help him win. No matter what the consequence, he was not there to win a popularity contest in the movie, he did not care if they were “black, white, blue, green, or orange,” he was going to do what he needed to, to win.
` This is one of my favorite movies, and without a doubt one of the most inspirational movies I have ever watched. Seeing high school kids, overcome and deal with the hand that they had been dealt is overwhelming to see. The way that the team dealt with the situation, even with the town against them, overcame adversity, and went on to a successful season.
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