Racial Profiling
The blinding splendor of ancient African kingdoms seems lost in modern Hollywood cinema. The portrayed images of Black people are often erroneous. Blacks are depicted as the stereotypical “sidekick,” the “local color”, or other exoticized characters. Film has the power to act as a mechanical “eye”, and is taken for face-value reality for many; this misinterpretations are believed easily by those who have had little interaction with the portrayed persons. A perfect example of this phenomenon is the confusion surrounding the movie King Kong. When this film about a giant gorilla was introduced to the United States in year?, very few Americans had had any contact with Africans. This film provided many Americans with their first glimpse of the inhabitants of the “Dark Continent.” Millions of Americans entered movie theatres to be met by non-English speaking, half-naked, nose-ring bearing “natives” that were portrayed as barbaric, lacking culture and morals, and frig
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