Civil Rights Movement: Film Analysis

Martin Luther King decided to go to Chicago and spreading the civil rights movement, but the “white power forces” were present, developing chaos and aggressive riots against the civil rights movement. The decontrol and wish of power developed other black rights movements defined as “Black Power” which not only it moved across the rights and poverty problems but also it started to be in confrontation with the very beginning movements led by King. Which were the consequences? Martin Luther King and his good will of the guarantee of civil rights were killed in a hotel room. The movie stated that every freedom movement requires some sacrifices and in order to transform the country, all the people that had died in the name of civil rights (students,
children, Martin Luther King and Kennedy) did not died in vain. As I said at the beginning, race is determined by society which feeds the power inequalities.
It is said so that racial identification is as a subjective as ethnic classification and that the definition of race have affected the well development of society. For example, if we considered the period in which the civil rights movements took place, we can appreciate that black people enjoyed less benefits than white people. All the perceptions of who were more powerful that the other one was brought by the colonization process and the development of slavery. The problem relied on the society thought did not advance as social rules did, and I believe that even now in 2015 the perception of racism haven’t been eliminated of society thought. The social construction of race is based on what we said before, the essentialist view of race by society, and it is not related to the biological matter. Thinking about it, I believe that the idea of racism is out of order when we talk about the America Continent. We are a colonized continent in which a “pure race” does not exist. We are a mix of
different human beings around the world product of colonization and immigration and it is almost impossible to define which the “American race” is disassembling any arguments that could exist about the “pure race” in America. I find very deplorable when people as Donald Trump talk about race without thinking about it and without thinking were the Americans came from. If we talk seriously about it and about who the “pure American race” is, I will say that the aborigines are. However, as we read in the articles they were discriminated as well. So the definition of race in America is based on the cultural assimilation and the process of socialization of southern and eastern Europeans based on beliefs and prejudices and “explaining local variants of race tends to focus on demographic, economic and political factors”. For sociologists the term racism includes prejudice and discrimination. We can say that prejudice is defined as the negative beliefs about an entire group and prejudices involve prejudgments of individuals based on stereotypes. We can also define as discrimination the actions that a person commits against another person or a group, including any behavior that could harm any group. The actions that individuals commit consciously or not, define the type of discrimination. The relation of 1960’s social discrimination and racism with the actual one is always based on the social interpretation and the social action.
“Race is involved in every single part of society; it is related with politics, economics and law. Race suffices all bodies of law and not only the civil rights, immigration law and federal Indian law but also criminal law property law and contracts law” (Critical Race Theory). The creation of “racial etiquette” has become common sense on comprehending and acting in the real world. “Race is subject of the macro forces of political and social struggles and the micro effects of daily decisions” (Critical Race Theory), and it affects different social groups. We can say as a racial fabrication: 1) the transformation of the idea, 2) the construction of the ideas based on racial and gender hierarchies, 3) evidence though a comparison of the stereotypes and 4) the race as rationally
constructed.