Ethnic_Notions

Ethnic Notions It’s no coincidence that America thinks the way it does. Images and ideas are being feed into our minds every time we open our eyes. African Americans were thought of as the inferior race so they were portrayed that way in the media. The media over exaggerated African American features and portrayed them in ways they didn’t really look like. They were fat, black, with gap teeth, big lips, ate watermelon and spoke broken English. The video showed that African Americans were always dancing, making music, moving rhythmically as they performed their chores in tattered clothing. They were the “happy slave”. People were working to end slavery and America was being bombarded with images of the “happy slave”. As I watched this video for the first time I was upset. The racial tension is not gone. black, african, time, same, men, images, americans, america, ways, way, video, slave, race, portrayed, media, look, happy, even, believe, being, worst, working, women, white, watermelon, watched, upset, try, true, thought, thinks, thing, tension, teeth, tattered