Movie Part three! ;)

Walking down a street, or on the way to class you spot someone, what is the first thing you see? The average person bases race on physical appearance. We base is on things such as eyes, color, hair, and even the nose type. Yet it is a fact that there is no sub-species so why do we look and or even care? America is known as the Melting Pot, where everyone can assimilate to the “American” ways. But in 1915 a man named Leo Frank was pulled from Jail and killed for murdering a white girl. This may sound typical of the time, but if you really think about it he’s a Jew, which typically in that era it means he was also light skinned. So what was white back then, obviously it was no longer the color of your skin anymore. Whiteness changed from color, to religion, heritage, and freedom or wealth. In the movie it even goes on to explain that the term white was brought into the court system. A Berkley Grad named Takao Okawa applied for citizenship in Hawaii and was denied. It was clearly noted that Takao may have been Japanese, but appeared whiter them most men that were considered to be white!
Then at the end of World War two, the federal government made the federal housing administration. This consisted of loans for the average Americans. The GI Bill was well know n the town of Levitown, which took the average monthly payment of one hundred and fifty down to a mere sixty five dollars per month. The problem with this system was that even though it was to be equal and for all men in reality, it was for the white man of that day and age. Red lining played a major role in who got what house, and what social standing a person was going to get in their homes. Real estate tangoed with which neighborhood it was placed in and what color of people were mainly in that area. The more black people moved into an area, the more the real estate went down. The community and property value was based on how many white people were in that area, white people became cash. Even today we struggle with equality amongst living conditions and payments. The average black person has one eighth of that of the white community. I think the movie gave a good point for the last line. “Why can’t we all just be a colorblind society?”