In the movie For Angela, in the scene where Angela and her mother were sitting on the bus as the boys made racist comments about them, I think the reason everybody on the bus heard the boys but did nothing to stop them is because nobody wanted to get involved. People don’t usually like to get involved in other peoples business. I can bet not even a quarter of the people who will read this would get involved because people commonly keep to themselves.
The point is, there should have never been a situation that anybody would have had to get involved with. I couldn’t imagine saying that to another person no matter what race, religion, gender, etc, because it seems wrong to me to judge a person by whats on the outside as opposed to whats on the inside because that’s the part that really matters. I have been around people who have made comments like that and I thought nothing of it at the time but when I think about it now if somebody would have heard those comments about their race they would have been very hurt and offended. I have never personally been affected by racism but I know people who have and they have told me some of the things that people have said to them and I don’t know how people can be so cruel and judgemental. I know that the world used to be a different place sixty or seventy years ago but some of the people I know who were born around that time still hold on to the prejudices that they grew up with even though the world has changed so drastically. I have heard racist comments being said to somebody of a certain race, I have never heard them get to such a degree that they would be anywhere near what the boys said to Angela and her mother on the bus. It often makes me wonder what would provoke a person to make those kind of comments. Those are my views on racism and the comments that were made on the bus to Angela and her mother.
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