Boys n the Hood

Group: 4
Evaluate this film: The pros and cons. Is the message relevant for us, too? Explain!

• Black Policeman:
  Racist against black people.
  Scene:
  1. A burglar gets into the house of Tre and there the policeman said: to bad that you don’t get him.
  2. Tre and Riccy drive home from the party. Suddenly the police stop them and one of the policeman hold a gun at Tre’s face.
  In Austria: That’s also like the situation here. It can also be that such a situation happens by us.
• Mother:
  Mother is different, because she earns more money. She lives different and she also doesn’t want to use slang. She wants to be integrated and be like white people. (The way she lives and the restaurant she chooses.)
  In Austria: A white woman from the middle class who wants to belong to the rich people.
• Education:
  It’s not usually that a black person gets a good job and a good education.
  The education is biased for white people not for black ones. For example: Riccy’s wife. Riccy is dead and so she has nothing now.
  In Austria: It is very important to get people educated otherwise it could be that they have nothing. Turkish people aren’t as good educated as Austrians.
• Drugs, alcohol, guns came from white people. It’s them making profits.
  In Austria: We don’t have a gun problem but the drugs and alcohol come from rich white people and are consumed by poor Austrians or Immigrants.
• Black people are interested in keeping their family together. Family, friendship, community -->Brotherhood.
  In Austria: Turkish people are interested in keeping their family. They don’t talk with white people, they don’t have a white community and they count themselves out
• A real man is not someone who kills and gets women pregnant.