blog 6

Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay

Grape Soda – dark color represents African American

Black people in the “hood” – dangerous people

            In the movie, Harold and Kumar 2 Escape from Guantanamo Bay, there was a scene where racial stereotypes was displayed. When Harold and Kumar accidently left their troubles behind in a small town, police showed up to investigated. The officer that was in charge of the case was a racist person. Even though Harold and Kumar is a Chinese American and an Indian person, he assumed that the big black guy he see in the town is the criminal instead. As we learned from media, African American are the one that creates most of the crime rate. While the tall and big African American was the one that called the police, he was accused of being a friend to the escaper than a witness. Without any doubts he was put into questions. He started pointing his gun at the African American which created a dramatic scene. He thought the African American was trying to help Harold and Kumar but in reality he is the one that called the police and a witness. While being point at by a gun, he started to panic and this is where the racist stereotypes comes in. The officer went to his car and took out a can of grape juice. I think in a African American perspective, grape soda represents them because of its dark color. It’s a racial stereotype that African Americans love grape soda. The agent was using a stereotype about African Americans craving grape juice/drink like it’s a drug. The agent was talking to a black witness and thought the witness was holding something back, so he was trying to bribe the witness with the drink. As if the man wouldn’t be able to resist the juice and so would talk. As the police officer tried to get more information out of him, he opened the lid and started pouring it on the floor. THIS IS AN ACT OF RACIST. Being as an officer for the anti terrorism department, he’s very sensitive to dangerous people and I guess his sense to black people are one of them. But, as he pours the grape juice on to the floor, he drew all the black people attention and was being hate on now. It’s not insulting when you realize it was a joke at the way the government and people in general believe in stereotypes, and look like idiots in the process.