Maz Jobrani Film Analysis

I liked Maz Jobrani, I thought that the use of comedy and describing the racial problems him and his family faced was a good idea in order to keep the audience attention and from them jumping to conclusions about the message he was trying to convey. I think if he used other examples beside himself, of other people, i don’t think the message would have been as strong. I think that he has a lot of points about the racial discrimination in america, even though in the constitution it says all people are created equal. One point he made that stuck in my mind is the part he talked about the only parts the movie industry gave him were all terrorist roles. I think that if we stop generalizing a race/ethnicity/culture of people in movies as terrorist or

I can relate to this in many ways, I 'm native american and although I never faced someone threatening me because of my race/ethnicity, i have faced growing up with people making fun of me by making “indian noises” and saying “how”. I never understood the logic behind making joke about a race or threatening someone different because of it. I think today we face major problems with racism. Every news channel you turn to has some form of some race being shot at by cops or some race war going on somewhere. These past few years have had a huge impact on racial issue, with “black lives matter” coming out since last year. I 've never understood this slogan, because to me all lives matter. I also believe that the media has taken to many stories of cops killing black people and totally change it to make the cops look bad, i 'm not saying that all the stories weren’t true because they were, no cop should ever use that type of force against a person. I do stand though with the black lives matter movement because for it to be 2016 and still have these racial issue is