A Month of Cleansing #8 (Crash)
I'm watching Crash, and i felt the need to get some thoughts out while it's running.
There's racism all over this film. Not in the sense that the makers of it are racist, but the characters are racist towards each other.
The scene where the officer pulls the black woman from the burning car...i wept. I didn't cry because a woman was pulled from a burning vehicle safely, i cried tears of sorrow because of how true the scene is. It takes a catastrophic event for us to pull together. The officer, who was racist towards the very same woman earlier in the film, suddenly feels compassionate and has a desire to help this woman enough to pull her from a burning car. It's genuine, but it took their lives on the line to get him out of his racist mindset. How true that is to life. It took 9.11 for this country to pull together, and here we are four years later fighting about the same pety shit we always have been. I weep for the human race.
People do some sick stuff. Some really sick stuff. We all walk around with these racial profiles and stereotypes in our head. Yes, we all do to varying degrees. And it seems that no matter what we do, no matter how hard we try, they don't go anywhere. They stay right here. I think what makes it worse though it is that we all perpetuate them by our foolish, uneducated, ignorant decisions. But the part that gets me; the part that really fires me up is that as much as i can talk about everyone else in this way, talk about the human race as being ignorant and stubborn, i am just as guilty. Not at any point in my life have i ever been, or will i ever be, any better than anyone else.
It's only by the grace of God that we have made it as far as we have. If it were up to us, we'd have killed ourselves off long ago.
In our daily travels through this complicated and difficult existence, we're all faced with various moments and events. Some of them involve thought and choice, and some of them are beyond our control. No matter which of the two we're in, we can interact, learn from it, let it affect us, or let it pass by without a single movement. The change that it brings can be positive or negative. What it all comes down to is choice. Decision. And it's yours.
There's racism all over this film. Not in the sense that the makers of it are racist, but the characters are racist towards each other.
The scene where the officer pulls the black woman from the burning car...i wept. I didn't cry because a woman was pulled from a burning vehicle safely, i cried tears of sorrow because of how true the scene is. It takes a catastrophic event for us to pull together. The officer, who was racist towards the very same woman earlier in the film, suddenly feels compassionate and has a desire to help this woman enough to pull her from a burning car. It's genuine, but it took their lives on the line to get him out of his racist mindset. How true that is to life. It took 9.11 for this country to pull together, and here we are four years later fighting about the same pety shit we always have been. I weep for the human race.
People do some sick stuff. Some really sick stuff. We all walk around with these racial profiles and stereotypes in our head. Yes, we all do to varying degrees. And it seems that no matter what we do, no matter how hard we try, they don't go anywhere. They stay right here. I think what makes it worse though it is that we all perpetuate them by our foolish, uneducated, ignorant decisions. But the part that gets me; the part that really fires me up is that as much as i can talk about everyone else in this way, talk about the human race as being ignorant and stubborn, i am just as guilty. Not at any point in my life have i ever been, or will i ever be, any better than anyone else.
It's only by the grace of God that we have made it as far as we have. If it were up to us, we'd have killed ourselves off long ago.
In our daily travels through this complicated and difficult existence, we're all faced with various moments and events. Some of them involve thought and choice, and some of them are beyond our control. No matter which of the two we're in, we can interact, learn from it, let it affect us, or let it pass by without a single movement. The change that it brings can be positive or negative. What it all comes down to is choice. Decision. And it's yours.
posted by Still Daddy at 7:18 PM
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