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Mark Salmorin
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MS. Connie Douglas
17 June 2016

Film Analysis

I feel that the most important issue in the movie was the
Affirmative Action that all the characters used, IE: the stereo typing,
racial slurs, and how they treated one another in their roles according
to the story. A great example is when Matt Dillon was using
stereotyping along with racism and bigotry while searching and making
advances on the black woman during the traffic stop. Then you can
reverse that role when Terrance Howard finally snaps on the cops
during the scene when Ludacris tries to rob him. We are all human and
born without prejudice. These are learned behaviors, through our
surroundings and environment. Peoples actions and behavior are some
of the roots of stereotyping and racism. (Haggis)
In the article The Race case. It provides strong evidence
that African Americans are still discriminated in some ways by not
having the same full access to our nations housing market. In our
society everyone is free to live wherever their dreams and resources

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can take them, but in our society that is not the case. A recent US
census indicates that even though we are free to do as we please in
our society we are still very much segregated.

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A recent U.S. Census report confirms that blacks
and whites continue to occupy separate neighborhoods in large U.S. cities. The most
common measure of residential segregation is an index that ranges from 0 to 100, where
o indicates that blacks and whites are evenly distributed among neighborhoods and 100
means that blacks and whites share no neighborhood in common. Scores greater than 60
are considered to be "high"; those above 70 are "extreme."
In 2000 the average level of black-white segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas stood at
64, compared with figures of 33 for American Indians, 41 for Asians and 51 for
Hispanics. Although average black-white segregation has moved downward since 1980,
indices remain extreme in the nation's largest urban black communities, especially in the
Northeast and the Midwest, where average segregation indices stood at around 74 in the
year 2000. The most segregated U.S. metropolitan area is Detroit, with an index of 85,
followed by Milwaukee (82), New York (81), Newark, N.J., (80) and Chicago (also 80).
Other areas with "extreme" segregation scores include Buffalo, N.Y., Cincinnati,
Cleveland, Kansas City, Philadelphia and St. Louis. Most other multiracial societies are
not this segregated--not Brazil, Canada, Australia or the United Kingdom. The only other
place where black-white segregation indices routinely exceeded 70 was the Union of
South Africa--under apartheid. (Massey)
Racial discrimination has been illegal since 1968 but yet is rarely enforced. We
are far from a perfect society but if we continue to try and improve racial equality laws
and actually enforce the I think our society would be better off.

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A superintendent at an Indianapolis school who was African American himself,
targeted black male students to improve their academic performance. Some felt this was
prejudice or profiling, but he insisted the statistics for passing in language arts and math
there was an eighty- eight percent pass rate for white male students vs a forty- three
percent pass rate for black males. (Teacher)

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Works Cited
Crash. Dir. Paul Haggis. Perf. Dato Bakhtadze, Matt Dillon, and Sandra
Bullock Arroyave. Bull's Eye Entertainment, 2004. DVD.
Massey, Douglas S. ""The race case.(Comment)."." The American
Prospect (2003).
Teacher, Radical. ""Segregation and race."." Opposing Viewpoints in
Context (2003).