Analysis Of "White Man's Burden"
Margaret Atwood once said: “I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‘race’ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.” In the perfect society, we would all be equal. No one person would be better then the other. Living in America, we are challenged every day to overcome feelings of prejudice where not the whole population is white. At this moment in time, blacks are looked down upon by whites. This is evident from research, videos even capturing black shoppers being persecuted and watched more than white shoppers. I believe the objection of the movie “White Man’s Burden” is to show that there will never be enough done to equal out different races; we see this using a variety of examples involving prejudice, discrimination and stereotyping throughout the movie.
The movie opens with a scene of a wealthy black family at dinner. We first get wind that the white race is the inferior race when we see that the family has a white servant. As the scene goes on, a black male describes whites as being lazy and incapable. For the duration of the movie, we see that this black male is Thaddeus Thomas, an owner of a chocolate factory that employs many white workers. The other main character, Louis Pinnock, is a white worker that finds himself fired from the factory for unknown reasons to him. Louis decides to take matters into his own hands by taking Thaddeus by gunpoint to a bank where the story unfolds as his plan goes wrong.
Prejudice is defined as an unfavorable opinion or feeling. It is the attitude that leads to discrimination, and is evident in the movie “White Man’s Burden.” At the beginning, during the dinner scene, by the way Thaddeus talks down about white people, we know he’s not in favor of their race. Later in the movie, we see his wife, Megan talking about the ‘white kids that have no fathers.’ By this statement, she is assuming that the inferior race doesn’t have family structure, even though we see Louis with a...
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