Today in Mr. Rivers class, we talked about the upcoming assignments such as microaggression and be real blogs. Make sure the microaggression is posted in google classroom under the Get Out section. Also we started the movie Get Out today, there is an assignment to write one sentence each day analysing what microaggressions there are in the film. Before we watched the film Mr.Rivers said ”before we write about microaggression we must know what empathy is” which is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. The Film started with the main character who is African American walking down a street at night to go to his girlfriend's house. After getting lost he was approached by a white car with black tint windows. He notices this and as the car is at his side the main character turns around and walks the other way. The car then stops. The camera stays on the main character, then the door in the background of the car is shon open. When the main character turns be gets attacked and knocked unconscious and brought into the trunk. After it writes the title and shows the main character in his house getting ready to leave to his girlfriend's house. After they leave and get to the house Chris meats the family and her father says “My man” which he has never said before to any of her boyfriends we find out. Because chris is black he takes this as a microaggressive frase and feels like he's being treated differently because he is black. This sets up the rest of the feeling for the movies, a tense uncertain setting with an underlying feeling of unwelcoming. Also when the couple mentioned them hitting the deer in the car the father said “Well if you ask me that's a step in the right direction, one down hundred thousand to go, there like rates” all while looking at chris. Some people could take this as meaning the deer being black people and that the father is casually being racist, hiding it in the text.
With the danger of people misunderstanding conversations as microaggression you really need to think about what you say and who you say it to. The more delicate conversation to have is with someone that you might not be familiar with. On the other hand you could talk with less boundaries with close friends,
Great details about what we watched in class and lots of important details that students who were absent would appreciate. The paragraph break is a logical transition from the day’s activities to the extension, but you may even want to break the day’s activities into more manageable pieces. That extension can likely go even further! Yes, we discussed the topic of microaggressions, but what are you seeing in the film that can help you to talk about the dangers of misunderstanding and the ways in which the film contributes to that conversation.
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