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In my opinion there are a lot of significant scenes throughout the movie Fruitvale Station. However, one of the most important scenes in this movie would be the actual fight that took place on the subway train. This scene took place at the very end of the video the last 13-14 minutes. This scene I feel was so significant because it had so much reality, truth, and a message that could not be denied by anyone. The reality that sometimes your past likes to pop back up at times and try to take you back to a person that you might no longer be as in the case of Oscar Grant when he ran into some old pals from his past on the train that put him in a unfortunate situation. The truth that people will abuse their authority all day everyday if they know they will get away with it and lastly the harsh message as W.E.B DuBois stated "a system can never fail those it was never built to protect."
Meaning that the federal nor judicial systems were never built to protect African-Americans nor were the people who operate these systems in favor of African-Americans then and now, nothing has changed except the reasoning behind why an officer killed an African-American today. Those systems were built simply to protect everyone else from us even when those with the badges are the ones causing more harm than help, but of course nobody wants to address those issues. Just a couple of thoughts, what if it was your race, religion, gender that was being oppressed, would people speak up then? Would people take the time out of their lives to stop and adhere to all your protesting and speaking out, or would life just simply carry on with or without you on board?
I totally agree with your post, Kavana. I feel that it is the same situation in every country where discrimination in some sort, is a a big deal. In my personal case, half my family is Black (some people call them Afro-Colombian) and the other half is light skin ("White" in Latin America). I know that in some places, like a store, for instance, people would give more looks to a darker skinned person than to a lighter one. Some bars, even, don't accept people of color.
ReplyDeleteIt is really sad to see that people, in the 21st century, are acting as those ones many centuries ago; with a lot of discrimination.