Color Blind Racism In The Film Fruitvale Station

In our society, the meaning of race can have different ideologies, but it is not associated with being equal to one another. Bonilla Silva defines color blind racism as a racial ideology going back to the late 1960’s; keeping people of color below the racial hierarchy. He quotes the hierarchy is “developed by these groups to explain how the world is or ought to be” (Silva 10). The movie called Fruitvale Station based on Oscar Grant III stood out due to the fact it is based on colored people being discriminated by not using race as a factor of his death. The movie ends with Oscar’s tragic death. The Court said the case was not based on race and eventually dismissed the case as a tragic accident due to the police officer Mehserle accidentally