Prejudice And Racism

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Recommended: Racial Discrimination in the Movies

The first video I seen was "Do the Right Thing." The first thing I seen watching this video was racism and I also seen some stereotyping. All of the mens were all being racist saying some stuff that refers to the people's race. For example, when the Hispanic man was telling the African man "you gold chain wearing, fried chicken and biscuit eating monkey. Take your f***** pizza and go back to Africa." Then we had one of the African men telling everyone "yo hold up time put y'all take a chill you need to cool this shit out and that's the double crew." Basically trying to have them all get along and not say any racist stuff to each other.

The second video I seen was "Brown/Blue Eyes," and there was some prejudice and racism in it. On Tuesday

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