Film Racial Injustice Content Analyses

Unfortunately, the brunt of the crackdown on crime has been borne by African Americans, mainly young African American males. This is largely because criminal justice in this country, statistically, is not colorblind. Nor does a poor person have the same advantages as a wealthy person within the criminal justice system. Furthermore, a majority of people wrongly convicted in this country are people of color. From 1903 to now, 459 known innocent people in the U.S. have been wrongly c

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mber of a street gang, and represented his fourth juvenile arrest. These and many other episodes of his troubled life are left out of the film, while law enforcement officials like Della Pesca are shaded to appear even worse than they were in reality. As Lona Manning notes in The Hurricane Hoax, Evil detective Della Pesca, the movie's version of Lt. DeSimone, is an ugly, leering guy. The real-life detective was a little sensitive about his looks. He’d taken a bullet in the face during World War II. The movie of course, doesn’t mention that the reason the detective wasn’t a beauty contest winner was because he was a war hero” (3). This type of purposeful distortion of reality with respect to racial injustice appears to stem from the intent of directors, writers, and producers to swing the scales of justice back to balance due to past flaws. All it does is prevent honest assessment, reflection, and resolution with respect to racial injustice. Society We see in many of these films that society is at odds with the message it often sends. In A Time To Kill, Carl Lee Hailey is assisted in his defense by lawyers played by Matthew McConaughey and Sandra Bullock. Both of them are white, average in talent, and great looking, while
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Approximate Pages = 22 (250 words per page)