Malcolm and Sophia (numba 2)

Malcolm and Sophia's relationship is very odd. They don't love each other, but they both still need to see each other? It doesn't make sense to me how Sophia needs to keep coming back after Malcolm abuses her, if she doesn't love him. I get that it is exciting for her, but is it really worth being abused and possibly getting caught? I guess that it is for her, but it doesn't really make sense to me. Also Malcolm could get killed by being seen in public with her? First of all, that is wrong. But second, why would he take the risk of being killed just for a white woman? The risks they take for each other, without even being in love, seem unrealistic to me. 

A movie that taught me a lot about interracial couples, and also really interested me at the same time, was Lakeview Terrace. In the movie an interracial couple, consisting of a white man and black woman, moves into a house next to a black man. They seem very much in love and act like an everyday ordinary couple. I know this is 100 percent wrong, but I think I used to subconsiously look down on interracial couples. Even though this was just a movie, it made me have more respect for these types of couples. Anyway the black man in the movie is out to get this couple. Throughout the movie he uses various antics to get them out. You don't know why he hates them so much until the end of the movie. You find out that the man's wife died in a car accident while being out with a white man she was having an affair with. This bother's the man so much that he tries to kill this couple, and gets killed himself instead. This is one demonstration of how much problems interracial couples go through. I guess it's worth it though if you really love the person that much. 

here's a link for the plot summary of the movie:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0947802/synopsis

NOI (numba 1)

The teachings that Malcolm gets from Reginald and others about Islam is funny to me. All whites are devils???? How stupid can people be to actually believe an evil scientist changed people's skin to black. I do not understand how any person could ever actually believe this. Maybe they just hate whites so much that they want to believe this, but deep down there is no way that anyone actually believe in this theory.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/yakub

This link describes the story yakub more in detail. It cracks me up how many people believed in this theory

The story of Yakub reminds me of a funny time in my childhood. Blacks obviously made this up to make themselves feel better than everyone else. My friend Joris did something like this. When we were in kindergarten he told me that he had pokemon in his room; actual, living Pokemon. I one hundred percent believed him because I wanted to believe him. I wanted to meet real pokemon, I mean who wouldn't??? This is obviously on a much smaller scale, but Joris and I are both the blacks in this situation. Joris made this story up to make him feel and seem cool to me. I was like the blacks that believed in the outrageous story of Yakub. I believed the story because I wanted to believe it, it gave me hope that there were real Pokemon. Similarly, blacks wanted to think that they were the dominant people, and that is the only reason I could come up with for why they would believe the story of Yakub. 

here is a link to a picture of some of my favorite pokemon (I know totally irrelevant but I'm putting it up anyway haha)

http://g.virbcdn.com/cdnImages/crop_200x200/Image-1910-2175-pokemon.gif

(squirttle was my favorite and among the pokemon that joris told me were in his room)

in class video

The video was pretty interesting. I thought it was going to be a boring lecturing video, but it wasn't too bad. I found it hard to believe how cartoon's that racist actually existed. At first I thought they were just recently made up to show how people used to feel, but they were actually on TV and that kind of freaked me out. It's horrible how people made the black's look and act in the movies/shows. Every single feature was exaggerated in the caricatures. The song was what I thought was most messed up. It actually disgusted me. I knew America used to be racist, but I didn't realize how bad it was before this video.

Laura

I think Malcolm is a complete idiot for leaving Laura for Sophia. Laura was clearly the one he loved and was meant to be with. He also ruins her life after he leaves her. I'm aware that he feels guilty for this, but I still can't believe how dumb he could be. He had the perfect girl and ruined everything. I hope I will never do anything as stupid as that in my life. It really annoys me how dumb Malcolm was. 

Malcolm and Reginald

I think Malcolm is really looking for acceptance from his brother Reginald. Reginald is his younger brother and Malcolm really wants to make him proud. He wants Reginald to look up to him. I can relate to this to my life, because I have a younger brother. He looks up to me, and when I hear him brag about me or anything like that, I like it. I would never tell him this, but it's a good feeling having someone look up to you. I sometimes base my decisions on what kind of example I would give to my brother. When Malcolm tries to box to impress Reginald, it kind of reminds me of something I would do for my brother Nick. We are very similar.