Preparing for the Movie Crash

      In preparation for watching the movie Crash, I first watched some of the videos from Face to Face. The video that stuck out the most to me was Anjum Mir. A Muslim woman who "..didn't want to be the target." After 9/11 she didn't go out for a week. This was because she feared the reaction of others. Mir also didn't want her child to have to deal with all of it.
I can't imagine how she would have felt. The thought that people were going to judge you by your appearance in such intensity that it could lead you to harm.

    Also, I have previously seen A Class Divided. I thought this video was absolutely amazing.
 Third graders were given a lesson on discrimination by dividing the class into blue-eyed people and brown-eyed people. These students latched onto the idea so quickly. Within fifteen minutes the students were calling each bad names and judging one another.
This just shows how quick people can latch on to certain ideas, even when they are absurd.

   I believe that these videos are very good for students to watch. And it will prepare us well for the movie Crash.