Amst Final Essaay - 1183 Words

Jane Drew AMST-185-005 12 December 2014 Final Essay Love has a lot to do with race it has a way of bringing out both good and bad in some people and unfortunately in some cases the issues of love and race are taken too far. In today’s society it is not as much of an issue to see interracial couples together as it used to be in the past, but that does not mean that it is not still an issue for some people. Throughout the semester we have studied different ways that not only in the cases of love but also family, friendship, and community are affected by racial issues both past and present, which only goes to show that racism still exists in our world today despite all of the progressions that we have made towards fixing the issue.†¦show more content†¦Madge eventually decides that she feels so shameful for what she had done to Bob and drops charges against him, which is nice but also must have been very awful for Bob because he has to live with the fact that the only reason why he was released was because of a guilty conscience of a heavy accusation, not because they asked him what went on between the two. Hines put this scene in the book because he wants the readers to get a sense of how easily it was to put someone of color in jail without questioning it instead of sitting down and listening to both sides of the story. There is not any justice whatsoever unless you were lucky enough to have a person like Madge take back their accusations which probably was a huge rarity especially during that time period. Black is†¦ Black Ain’t is a documentary by Marlon Riggs and is the epitome of love, sexual orientation, family, and racism all tied together. Riggs, metaphorically comparing African Americans to his grandmother’s pot of gumbo adding language, religion, traditions, and many other characteristics that make up African Americans seeing that so many different things go into the pot for a great end result. Blacks have become so adapted to being insulted by Whites and being t hrown names by every other race except for their own, they came to the realization that what does being black actually mean? Black, negro, African American, colored, all of these