Crash

I just wanted to start out by saying I'm obsessed with this movie, it was definitely on the intense side, but it was so good and really made me think. Anyways. There were a lot of examples of both implicit and explicit racism in the movie. The Sandra Bullock character clearly demonstrates both. She later admit that she felt afraid when she saw the two black men approaching her, but she didn't want to act upon that fear because then she would be a racist. But because she later felt like she should have done something, she is explicitly racist towards the man who was redoing her locks and she was sure he must be a gang member because he was Mexican. The Iranian man also assumes the same man cheated him probably also because he was Mexican. However, the gun shop owner is explicitly racist towards the Iranian man and basically calls him a terrorist.Another example of implicit racism is when the cop Tommy picks up the black hitch-hiker. It's obvious that Tommy is trying so hard not to be racist, but deep down we know he was scared because he assumed the black man had a gun and ended up shooting him. I could go on and on with examples from the movie, but I think you get the point. Although I think explicit racism is always worse than implicit because the overtness of it just hurts feelings of others, implicit can sometimes be just as bad. Like I said before, Tommy wasn't explicitly racist, but his implicit racism caused him to shoot the man. I think all of us have some implicit racism and it's not really something we can control. Our society taught us that white people are "good". I was really surprised to watch on Oprah that a black woman even felt safer with white people. I hate to say it, but I know a part of me implicitly racist even though I wish it weren't true.