Crash of racism

this week in sociology we watched the movie crash. this movie was a really great movie that put the whole racism issue out in the open. it really took the major issues into plain view. in the movie there were several different plots going on at once. but the message was very clear. and when you look at all the characters history's their motives seem almost justified. for example the store owners that wouldn't pay the man that fixed his lock because he didn't understand that the door needed to be fixed and so he refused to pay the man. but from the lock fixers point of view he did his job and never got payed. so it is understandable that both parties were not happy. and a big factor in their misunderstandings was because of the conflict in races. i can try to understand whee they are coming from in my own life. even while living in a save neighborhood were crime rates are very low i feel i am not so sheltered to not ever have encountered racism. for example when i went to the church to do community service i was wearing my Jewish star that i always wear around my neck. usually it is tucked in behind my shirt out of sight but when i arrived at the church it was unusually out in the open. the church goers were still nice to me but they seemed a bit more reserved then the first time i had gone. i felt almost out of place this time as apposed to last time when my star was hidden. i realized it was untucked and put it away but i feel like the message was already out. this wasn't the first time i had been discriminated against for wearing my Jewish star. but this was the first time people treated me differently after already knew me. i was almost appaled. i did not think that anyone was doing it on purpose but it was in their subconscious like we had learned in class. it was a very eye opening experience.