"We don't look nothing like the people on the screen."
On the first day we talked about images. There was four sub topics what is an image? What kind of story does images tell? Significances of Images and Audience. Media is the most powerful force in the world. Bell Hook article "Black Looks: Race and Representation" this article stood out to me because Bell Hook talks about the mass media and how African Americans still have not made much of a change in the area of representation. African Americans are generalized as illiterate, poor and incapable. However, there are many African Americans who are capable of completing the same task as there white counterparts and are just as beautiful as there white counter parts but the darker skin will still be seen as incapable and not good enough. The media brainwashes society and making it seem as though the lighter skin is better.
Decolonization must take place and African Americans have to rise pass the hate that is portrayed in media. I define whiteness as invisible through the eyes of whites; it is a normative privilege that oppresses racial minorities through inequality, subordination and power. nobody skin tone should define the capability society has to stop "othering" and see everyone equal no one or nobody is better than the other.
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