White Like Me Movie

White Like Me

    White Like Me was a 2013 film, written by Tim Wise that depicted exactly how white privilege hurts people of color and exactly how blind society is to the truth. Much of the white community aren't aware on the hardships African Americans and other minorities face in places such as employment, housing, education, healthcare, and criminal justice. Wise had one main goal in writing this movie, to try and open the eyes of the people of the white community and make them aware of their privilege. He did so in in telling stories of which he lived through. Mr. Wise blames American society and the way they paint racial privilege, depicting blacks to be subhuman and inferior to whites, thus putting a criminal-like racial profile on blacks.

Wise believes that America has tried to cover up and avoid dealing with the problem of racism in our country. In the film, Wise illustrates how Black and Latino males are three times more likely to have their vehicle stopped for search than a white male, even though white males are nearly five times more likely to be carrying drugs on them. Now why exactly is recurring phenomenon, back by research, so common even to this day? Wise pokes at the idea that humans might simply be born with this racial bias. Now this idea can easily be turned down as we've seen minority acceptance have an increase in America's history, dating back to early civilization of the thirteen colonies, where being white played no role, all the way to the late 1700's where slavery began in America. So is it that were born with this racial ideology, or are we taught it as a child with the things were surrounded with.