"Mississippi Burning" a view on racism

Racism is a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others (Dictionary.com). The movie "Mississippi Burning" depicts just that through the lives of black men and women. As three young teens fighting for equal rights are killed in Mississippi in the late 1960's investigators question the acts of white men in the community.
While the search for the three boys' killer's continues anyone who talks to the authority pays the price. From gunshots through their families windows, and even as extreme as burning a whole families house down and hanging the father. It took a lot of questioning but soon the detectives work together and get all the men who helped in the killing of the teens put away.
The term racism fits heavily into this movie for obvious reasons. The white's don't want to tolerate the black people so they put them on the low end of the triangle. They separate themselves by jobs, social outings, and even water fountains. Finally the dominator in this movie is clearly the white people because they feel blacks were inferior to them
This movie brutally shows the treatment of black people not just performed in this decade, (1960s) but it even shows how the blacks have been treated over centuries. Many people in the south still feel the same way about the blacks; just because of the color of their skin we considered the "unclean and dirty." Many days we as Americans would like to think that racism doesn't exist, but even this year police officers have dealt with the title of a "racist." Racism isn't always black vs. white,it occurs everyday with many different kinds or races like: Jews, Arabs, and Mexicans. I don't know how anyone could ever be proud about killing someone just because of the color of their skin.


Mississippi Burning. Dir. Alan Parker. Perf. Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe. 1988. Videocassette.
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