Racial Stereotypes in Crash

Crash is a movie about racial stereotypes that people believe in, and how they let them influence the way they see people. The stereotypes lead the characters to have prejudices about certain people in the movie. Every race is guilty of having prejudiced beliefs about some other race in the movie, and all the characters of al different races are somehow interconnected with each other. The point of the film is to show that people shouldn’t believe ever stereotype they are told, and consider the possibility that all people of the same race are alike. There are different types of people in every race, whether that means good or bad people, or smart or dumb people. There are no personality traits that every person of a race has.

There are many instances of racial stereotypes throughout the movie. One of the first is when the two black men just left a restaurant and Ludacris is complaining about how they got poor service because they were black. He then goes on listing all the things that people thought of them because they were black, and then proved all of them to be true. He points out that Sandra Bullock clung on to the guy who played George of the Jungle’s arm when she saw them, and pointed out that she immediately felt afraid because she saw them. He and his friend then proceed to steal their car and take it to a chop shop. I thought it was ironic how he had thought how wrong it was for people to stereotype him, and then do all the things he said people assumed he did.

Later on, Sandra Bullock is bitching about how the Mexican guy she hired to change the locks is just going to sell the keys to his “homies,” and demands that George of the Jungle has the locks changed again the next morning. The Mexican guy ends up leaving the keys on the counter for Sandra Bullock, proving that she was wrong about him. In another scene, two officers pull over another Navigator because a woman was giving her husband road head. One of the officers is clearly racist, and has a