Crash- Implicit & Explicit Racism

This week in sociology, we watched a movie called Crash. Crash presented the extreme cases of racism that people encounter on so many occasions. I enjoyed this movie a lot, because it really opened up my eyes about racism, and how it affects everyone. What I liked most about Crash, was that it wasn't just black and white people. It had a diverse cast from many different minorities like Hispanic, Mexican, Asian, and Persian. which gave a really good perspective of race from different points of views. In the movie, there were many examples of both implicit and explicit racism. implicit racism is based on judgments, it is from your brain. You don't realize that you're racist because it is in the subconscious part of your brain, and it's not intentional. Explicit racism is extreme racism, where you know and realize that you are racist, and it is your intention to be that. In the movie, one example of explicit racism was when the Persian family's store was broken into, and it had racist remarks to 9/11 and Arabians, when they were not even Arabian. One example of implicit racism was when sandra bullock kept telling her husband to change the locks, when she saw the locksmith was Mexican. In my opinion, I think that explicit racism is worse because the person's intention is to be racist, its not an accident. As much as I wouldn't like to, I think that I could be implicitly racist, and I think that everyone in some ways or another is. It's very easy to pass quick judgment on someone just because of what race they are or what race they look like. We can't help that because society has taught us these things. I think the best thing you can do is to realize that you are being racist and try to prevent it from happening.