hite ignorance has led to the continuing cycle of brutality against blacks in America. The movie Rosewood exemplifies how established cultural prejudices caused by fear lead to violent acts. Fear made by racial preconceptions, make room for the imagination of the individual that allows such bigotry to exist. Similarly, as Dr. J.W. Wiley puts it, “racism is largely predicated on unfamiliarity with the “Other”” (Wiley 121). America's racist past has created a wall that separates people of different color from engaging with each other. It is the wall that allows people to have prejudicial attitudes towards others. This ongoing evil that is spoiling America, is rooted to society's ignorance. Furthermore it is important understand the importance…show more content… In the movie the audience is exposed to extreme acts of violence generated by false claims that fit a stereotypical racist ideology. It was the whites ignorance that led their “seek for justice” more into terroristic actions. In the movie it seemed as though the actions of the rioters were driven by an urge to wage violence against blacks, rather than seek justice for Fanny Taylor. This attack in Rosewood connects to the riots in Detroit in 1943, in which Walter White explained, “The Riot was triggered by a random act of violence and then fed by long pent-up hostility”(AAH 279). The burning and looting of black homes by whites was a way to free a long desire to wage violence on blacks. What’s equally disturbing is that the actions taken by the whites were excused because the victims happened to be black. Comparatively, when reading Women Race & Class, the author picks at Susan Brownmiller for excusing horrific acts on blacks. In the book it states; “Till’s action,” said Brownmiller, “was more than a kid’s brash prank.”(Davis 178). In the movie, when there is no punishment against violence it justifies those acts and increases the probability of them happening
