Cry Freedom
In the movie "Cry Freedom" Steven Biko is a black human rights leader. He is loved by the black community but hated and feared buy the white South African community. James Wood, the editor of a white newspaper, befriends Biko and agrees to go to a black township with him. Biko, however, is banned from these townships by the government. While in this township a situation arises where an analogy of the governmental and humanistic situations is compared to a table. The conversation begins when Woods says that the government is beginning to give blacks better education. Biko then says, "I won't be forced into your society. You can do whatever you want to me, beat me, torture me or kill me but I wont be what you want me to be, I will be who I am"(sic). Woods the says, "I don't know,
Both perspectives seem appalling to me in the sense that they both enforce the notion of segregation. The whites want to control the blacks at their table and the blacks what to control themselves at their own table. In my perspective, humans are humans, I do not care if they are white, black, yellow, orange, purple, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Satanist or pagan. Their should be no table, only a dining hall. A room that is so called earth. And that room should be populated by any and all living beings in a peaceful and productive way. Those people who do not whish to be peaceful or kind should be the ones treated like the blacks, sitting at the white table, not men, women and children who would work for that great hall. Woods then makes a sarcastic remark enforcing the notion of pa
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Approximate Word count = 529
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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