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In a country where intolerance for other people’s differences evolves into violence all too often there was a ray of hope in a movie. This country has not made much tangible progress in race relations in a very long time, or so it seems anyway. However, by viewing two movies that were filmed over forty years apart I see that there has been some progress as miniscule as it may be. The two movies were To Kill a Mocking Bird, and A Time to Kill. I feel that movies reflect society and these two movies showed very different societies.
To Kill a Mocking Bird was based on the classic novel by the same name. This novel and movie was based around a black man’s trial for rape. The man was clearly innocent and incapable of committing the crime for which he was accused. However, the jury still found the man guilty regardless of the fact that there was no actual evidence that the man committed the crime. The all white jury believed the testimony of two white community members over the facts and the testimony of a black man. This certainly showed a cultural bias towards the black population. The people believed that all black men were liars
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Viewing these two movies I see that as a society our race relations have improved and a black man can receive justice in an American movie. Hate groups such as the KKK have made their mark on the American culture, whether or not we as a society would to believe it.
Have we made progress in race relations? I say yes we have made progress in leaps and bounds. However, even as race relations have improved in the general population a more dangerous, and concentrated problem has arisen, hate groups. and their white women should not have been left with them. There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions.
The hate group the Klu Klux Klan was a very big factor in the second movie. I believe that if the film were done in the 1950’s the black father would have been convicted or worse. Therefore there !
is no hierarchy of oppression; everyone is equally hated under the eyes of the bigot (p. He faced persecution just as his client did. The first was the actions against the defendant’s attorney.
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