"Crash"

There is so much implicit and explicit racism in the world. It is so common that people don't even know that it's there unless it directly effects them. In the movie "Crash" when Sandra Bullock's character reaches for her husband's arm as she passes by two black men, she commits an implicit racial action. She doesn't outwardly express her racism but she demonstrates it through her actions. The same character shows explicit racism as she yells at her husband to have the locks of her house changed again in the morning. She verbally expressed her dislike for the Hispanic locksmith changing her locks.

I feel like this topic hits home for me. Being a minority, I feel that I have experienced this type of racism on many occasions. I've been subjected to so many explicit and implicit racist comments that I've become somewhat tolerant of them. For example, when 9/11 occurred, many people told me to my face that Muslims were terrorists and that all Middle Easter people were hiding bombs in their houses. I remember hearing this when I was in fifth grade. That had to be one of the more unbearable types of explicit racism. Some implicit types would be when I traveled for a pilgrimidge with my family. We were on our way to Saudi Arabia and my dad was stopped for "a random security check". Thankfully we arrived really early for our flight for my dad was questioned for quite a while.

I feel that it's ignorance that allows for this type of behavior. There are so many different people who are forced to deal with this type of behavior everyday. It's really sad.