Famous Landmark Documentary On Racism In A United States Neighborhood / Video Film

The Black middle-class Myers family moves into all-white Levittown, PA in August, 1957, and are snubbed and mistreated, in this powerful landmark documentary showcasing racism in the United States. This movie is part of the collection and courtesy of the Academic Film Archive of North America from www.archive.org; Producer: Lee Bobker/Lester Becker.

Racism, by its simplest definition, is discrimination based on the racial groups to which people belong. People with racist beliefs might hate certain groups of people according to their racial groups. In the case of institutional racism, certain racial groups may be denied rights or benefits, or get preferential treatment. Racism typically points out taxonomic differences between different groups of people, even though anybody can be racialised, independently of their somatic differences. According to the United Nations conventions, there is no distinction between the term racial discrimination and ethnic discrimination. While the term racism usually denotes race-based prejudice, violence, discrimination, or oppression, the term can also have varying and hotly contested definitions. Racialism is a related term, sometimes intended to avoid these negative meanings. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, racism is a belief or ideology that all members of each racial group possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially to distinguish it as being either superior or inferior to another racial group or racial groups. The Merriam-Webster's Dictionary defines racism as a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular racial group, and that it is also the prejudice based on such a belief. The Macquarie Dictionary defines racism as: "the belief that human races have distinctive characteristics which determine their respective cultures, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule or dominate others." According to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the term "racial discrimination" shall mean any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, religion,descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life.' This definition does not make any difference between prosecutions based on ethnicity and race, in part because the distinction between the two remains debatable among anthropologists. According to British law, racial group means "any group of people who are defined by reference to their race, colour, nationality (including citizenship) or ethnic or national origin".

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• prejudice
• racism
• discrimination
• hiring
• practices
• practice
• race
• racist
• racists
• racial
• blacks
• black
• civil
• rights
• equal
• opportunity
• employment
• office
• workplace
• work
• job
• jobs
• affirmative
• action
• African
• American
• African-American
• Americans
• African-Americans
• ethnic
• Levittown
• neighborhood
• housing
• property
• values
• real
• estate
• neighborhoods

[maxwellthebest]

@7446harley you are so right brother, its happening in towns all over america

[maxwellthebest]

@commonman80 cause they too stupid drinking fire water

[maxwellthebest]

@commonman80 nigger

[maxwellthebest]

@54321yssuom can't understand u sand nigga

[54321yssuom]

نداء إلى الإنسانية نحن في السعودية لدينا المواطنة السعودية ، ولكن بعض الناس يستخدم العنصرية ضدنا بكلمة انتم بقايا حجاج وهم كذلك بقايا قادمون من خارج السعوديه الرجاء نصحهم لانهم يهتمون اذا كان الكلام من خارج البلاد

We appeal to the humanity in Saudi Arabia we have Saudi citizenship, but some people use the word racism against us, you are also the remains of the remains of pilgrims coming from outside Saudi Arabia, please advise them to care if they were to speak from outside the country

[commonman80]

@7446harley, Wrong? HA!! I'm an African American, and I would NEVER want to live in a place that is not Multicultural. That's why I WILL NOT live in an ALL BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD. Or an ALL WHITE NEIGHBORHOOD. Or, an ALL HISPANIC NEIGHBORHOOD. ETC. I've found that the people who choose to live in these type neighborhoods, are ALWAYS LACKING in Human Skills in one form or another. They ALWAYS seem lost to what is going on in the World OUTSIDE THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS, and are ALWAYS cruel and or STUPID..

[commonman80]

@Communist2012, I have been telling "The American Indians" this for almost 20 years. If their going to be forced to exist on "Reservations", Then they should have the right to Buy Sell And Trade to tje rest of the World as separate Nations. The "American Indians", are the poorest people on The North American Continent. Even poorer than The Black and Hispanic Populations. To this very day, their still getting screwed by Federal and Corporate America.

[7446harley]

@commonman80 i live inlevittown and if you could come here you would see what the blacks have done to this once great town,this town is made up of sections,about 60 of them and 3 twp`s ,if you go to a bristol twp section were there is about 30% blacks now,you would see the difference and the property values are about 30% lower for the same house ina white section and crime is rampant,last week 3 blacks punched an old lady in the face,never would happen in a white section,you guys are wrong

[gewangew]

The negros who were transported unnaturally to American continent by Anglisch slavemasters should be sent back to Africa. All Anglisch slavemasters' offsprings should be totally executed (no prisoners, no survivors) for violating God's will to put different races on different continents. Neither is done. Hence the problem of USA.

Q: What is USA?

A: It is a sin.

Q: What if the Anglisch slavemasters have spreaded their genes to all American citizens?

A: Then execute all American citizens.

[mtl1865]

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF IGNORANCE AND DENIAL