We recently started watching the movie Mississippi Burning(1988) during Language Arts class. I generally found this movie to bring out the theme of Racism extremely strongly.
The movie is basically a crime film loosely based on the FBI investigations of a the murders of three civil rights workers in the state of Mississippi.
I find that other than the crime itself, the movie also evidently portrays the Racism that was very strong throughout the story. The White men obviously do not like the Black men. Hence, they execute very strong and violent actions against them. One such actions include the burning of the Black men's churches. Firstly, the theme of Racism is already seen in the segregation of blacks. The churches are separated into White men's churches and black men's churches. This is further emphasized when the White men set the black men's churches on fire and destroying them. The movie also portrays the white men to have much better living conditions. The white men are like the "posh" people, and the black people live in squatters in rather undeveloped areas. This portrays the black men as the "poor" and "inferior".
The black men do not have the money and the number to overpower the whites. They had no choice but to silently endure the racial bias.
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