Daily Blog 11/2/17

Today in class we watch more of the film Get Out.  During the movie we had to find one piece of mircoaggression.  I found mircoaggression when Chris was asked if being African American is more of an advantage or disadvantage.  I could understand how awkward that must have felt for Chris to be asked that question.  Here is a description of what happened in the movie today.  Rose's mom asks the Chris to come in and sit with her.  She asks him if he wants to know how it works talking about therapy.  She has a mug and move a spoon around in it and you can hear the clanking of the spoons and the walls of the mug.  She asks him where he was when his mother died.  He was watching TV and it was raining outside.  His mom was supposed to be coming home from work but didn’t and he didn’t do anything.  Thought if he called anyone that it would make it real.  Chris is crying and feels like it is his fault.  She tells him to sink into the floor and now it looks like he is floating in space.  He can’t get out.  This whole scene felt like it was a nightmare.  Chris tries to take a picture of the house housekeeper then talks to the groundskeeper and tells him that what happened basically was real.  Meeting the rest of her family was extremely awkward.  Chris saw another person of his color and felt better and first but then is confused, because the other guy is awkward.  Chris talks to Mr. Hudson and he is blind but tells Chris his work is really good. Chris goes upstairs and finds his phone unplugged.  When he walks upstairs the rest of the family stops what they are doing and listens to him walk. The housekeeper is in the doorway when Chris gets off the phone and the conversation is weird.  When Chris takes a picture of the other man his nose starts bleeding and then attacks Chris and starts yelling Get out over and over.  When the guy came at Chris he said it felt like he knew him.  Now Chris doesn’t think that the hypnosis didn’t work.  Chris and Rose go for a walk and while they are on the walk the father decided to play bingo with the rest of the family. When they were playing bingo the dad would hold up a number of fingers and then someone would hold up their card with a line created bingo. It was weird, because every time he would hold up a number someone else would hold up their card with bingo. Chris and Rose decide to go home and that she will make something up to tell her parents of why they are leaving. We stopped there in class. Today microaggression happens everyday and we don't even realize it. I know that I have probably said something that I didn't even realize was microaggression. Most people don't mean to say or do something that would be discriminating anyone it just happens. A Columbia professor asked students to write something that was a microaggression said to them. One of the girls wrote "No where are you REALLY FROM?"