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In 5 pages the writer discusses the movie "White Man's Burden," which was directed by Desmond Nakano. The movie is one of role reversal where the black man dominated society and the white man is the poor lower class worker. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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The main characters of the movie are Thaddeus Thomas, who is played by Harry Belafonte, and Louis Pinnock, who is played by John Travolta. Thomas is a wealthy and
cultured black businessman. Pinnock loses his job in the factory that is owned by Thomas. Pinnock and his family live in a LA slum. Circumstances put Thomas and
Pinnock together, and the two are forced to learn about each other. At an early part in the movie Thomas states to
his all-black dinner guests that whites "appear to be a people who are beyond being helped" (74). This sets the tone for the movie. The movie is a
caricature on the bigotry that takes place in America. According to Hluchy (1995), "White Mans Burden sets out to show that no amount of help could make a difference when
such bigotry is the main pattern in the social fabric" (Hluchy 74). The initial impression of the film is a sense of what blacks
must go through seeing mostly whites at every phase from television to advertising, and how they must feel when working for another race. This parody becomes very real to
the viewer, who comes to the startling realization that the movie must be a true reversal of the races. The black man and the white man get a glimpse
of what it would be like to become the other. "White Mans Burden" is a paradigm of the issue of racism. It screams with
vibrant realism of the heartaches that the minority has had to endure. In the 1990s, racism is still alive and well, and bigots and racists keep it that way.
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