Racial Stereotyping In Trevor Rhone's Old Story Time

The perception of black by many is a high contributing factor that leads to bleaching. Black individuals are observed as inferior to those of white complexion, they are often stereotyped and are seen as being illiterate and unattractive. Trevor Rhone is a famous Jamaican author who wrote many interesting books, one of which is Old Story Time. Racial and class discrimination was a prominent theme in the book. Mr. Rhone was able to use a black Jamaican woman with the stage name Miss Aggy to capture the theme. Even though her native colour is black she restricted her son from dating black girls, due to the fact that she believes “anything black nuh good”. (Rhone 1981 23). She mentioned that black was good enough for her but not for her son. After

Once you are a black individual you will be stereotyped base on your color; it does not matter where you are from, the work that you do, or who you associate yourself with, these accusations will still be prominent. According to an article “The list of Stereotypes,” a teacher asked her student to compile a list of stereotypes that people have about black individual and the stereotypes they have about White and Latino people. From the list provided these were the stereotypes of blacks: “stupid, Irresponsible, Crack babies, Teen pregnancy, Drop-outs, Incarcerated, Fatherless, Love fried chicken, and Kool-Aid, Hard workers? Athletic, Violent, Live in the ghetto/the projects, Wasted generation, Loud, obnoxious, rude, Nappy hair, Bad attitudes, disrespectful, Hoodlums, Poor, Dirty, drugs, porn, weed, Guns, Low job expectations and Speak different English”; in contrast, white people was stereotype as: “very proper Sense of entitlement, power, Always think they’re right, Rich with big houses, and Have better jobs.” (The List of Stereotypes 2007) This shows the inaccurate label’s that have been placed on the black society; hence, you have a wide range of black individuals bleaching, because no one wants to be known as the wasted

Early silent movies such as "The Sambo Series" 1909-1911, "The Nigger" in 1915, and “Gifted Hands” in 2009 offered existing stereotypes through a fascinating new medium.” (Green 1998-99) These movies contain downgrading stereotype of black people. The conception of Sambo is that of a permanent child incapable of maturity. In the Sambo series, they gave the impression “that blacks are by nature servile, fawning, cringing, docile, irresponsible, lazy, humble, dependent, prone to lying and stealing, grinningly happy and basically infantile. (Davis 2007). “The Nigger” is a 1915 film that represents gender and racial prejudice. The blacks were stereotyped as the villain and were seen as brutal animal-like being. Because of how blacks were incorrectly stereotyped in the film Negroes protested against the movie, this was published in a newspaper article in 1915. It was stated that “the film was objectionable”. And the protesters believed that “the Negro’s better stand is not brought to the fore in the show.” (Negroes protest, Apr 21, 1915). Another movie that portrays racial stereotyping is “Gifted Hand” it is about the life of Ben Carson a neurosurgeon who was doubted of his ability because he was black. In his early years, he was labeled as an ill-mannered, violent, and high tempered individual. Being the only black in his class he was not appreciated. There was a scene in the movie where he was