Implicit and Explicit

             This week we watched the movie "Crash". This movie I found not only interesting, but also showing great examples of implicit and explicit racism. An example of explicit racism that the movie shows is when a Farsi character wanted to buy a gun to protect his family, the gun store owner started calling him an "Arab" who was involved in 9/11 and refuses to give him anymore business. This is purely an explicit example  because the store owner is deliberately discriminating and making assumptions of this man just because of the society we live in today. An implicit example would be the cop who was always trying to be aware of racism and avoid it. He even told a personally embarrassing lie in order to get away from his racist partner but when he is driving an African American man home and the man reaches in his pocket, he automatically thinks it is a gun and shots him while in reality he was only trying to show him a religious statue. This is an example of implicit racism because the cop really wanted to do the right thing and never discriminate, but in the end his inner reflexes that society has embedded into him took control. I personally really enjoyed this movie because it showed so many separate stories and the backgrounds of all the people that make the absurdity of racism so clear and it really made me understand how disgusting stereotypes of races are. An individual is an individual and hopefully one day this society will never have to worry about implicit racism, let alone explicit.