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”.
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February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
It certainly hard …
It certainly hard to make those tough judgments that will keep are children safe and happy in the future. When minorities dont want to follow laws and cultures of the majority they are asking to have problems.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
You are right I …
You are right I would hunt down racist people like you and end the violence and crime and cost of locking you up.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
At this stage in …
At this stage in America whites are desperately trying to stop racism but blacks will not join the fight there by keeping it alive. I look at Africa and they have had thousands of years to create a living safe society and they are worse then ever. I dont believe that blacks are interested in living together in harmony and will continue to rebel and excuse their roles in crime and violence as white peoples felt. The race card is now maxed
February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
Why is it that …
Why is it that whites in Canada insist on immigrants to have Canadian Experience? Once I got into the Canadian work force I discovered it was the Canadian who suffer from inferior work skills and ethics. A bunch or retards and the whites are full of shit. A genetic waste and that is why whites insist on colored people to have Canadian Experience.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
“The black is …
“The black is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations.”
-Che Guevara
February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
that woman at 7:00 …
that woman at 7:00 is a friggin’ narrow-minded bigot!
February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
excellent comment …
excellent comment thanks for posting it.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
Not all whites are …
Not all whites are racist. That doesn’t justify all whites from a few bad ones. Jesus tells us to “loves your neighbor as yourself.” If you follow Jesus you are to love everyone.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
@Indian0Warrior, …
@Indian0Warrior, the way to fight Racism is not to be racist yourself. Dont stoop to your enemies level because then that makes YOU inferior, not them. All whites are not this way at all and many helped with the movement as well.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
How true. It is the …
How true. It is the law that has them phony. Take the law away they would run around killing every non white. BASTARDS!
February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
Its just goes to …
Its just goes to show the true nature of the whites. It is the law that has every ones mouth taped up. In every whites heart there is nothing but bitterness and hate. Where there are the whites you will find this. The whole problem is the whites; we got to exterminate these sub humans then there will be peace on earth. Keep the girls they are good sex symbols, not those fat round flabby one they should be exterminated first.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
People who get into …
People who get into the racist mode are usually the one with an inferiority complex. The white race are the most racist people on earth and its because they are well aware that they are barbarians and savages that went around the world looking for food since Europe was over populated and the land could not support their numbers. The nations that were self sufficient stayed are home and developed. We all know how the west was won.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
People who get into …
People who get into the racist mode are usually the one with an inferiority complex. The white race are the most racist people on earth and its because they are well aware that they are barbarians and savages that went around the world looking for food since Europe was over populated and the land could not support their numbers. The nations that were self sufficient stayed are home and developed. We all know how the west was won.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
Most of the English …
Most of the English in Canada are the descendant of street kids that lived on the streets of London. To clean the streets the authorities packed them off to Canada where they were placed in foster homes and worked the farm. Now we have a bunch of there descendants thats preventing this country from progressing because their brains are of a poor inferior quality. Ask me because I tried to teach the bastards and they just could not learn basic things.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
I work with a bunch …
I work with a bunch of English dudes and we use computers to do our work. These English dudes are so dam ignorant and backward; they hate me for being smart and skillful. I try to help these bastards and because they cannot learn they hate me to a point of terminating my services. Is Canada a land of opportunities? Yes, for the ignorant.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
Illegal aliens have …
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in this land, ask any Native Indian. I am talking about whites living illegally on Native Land.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
Negro.. sounds so …
Negro.. sounds so strange and un PC to hear that word!
February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
keep on fam..dont …
keep on fam..dont let this be erased from the archives
February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
@dipslover
Obama …
@dipslover
Obama would help keep them out also. Remember how he disowned Reverend Wright. He follows the racist laws of the Talmud.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
Sad that this sort …
Sad that this sort of thing still happens in the U.S.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
Sad and that guy …
Sad and that guy Meyers is a veteran. WOw to think that you go and fight for your country and this is what you have to come home to.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
The little girl in …
The little girl in the hating moms background is Michele Bachman!
February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
I would believe …
I would believe this in Ole Miss….But Pennsylvania?? Wow. Imagine if these people are still alive to see Obama’s inauguration..HA!
February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
Wow!
This video has …
Wow!
This video has created a lot of hate,huh?
All I have to say is that racist or not,by you guys arguing on and on you are just showing your own true “colors”.
And by “color” I mean your attitude,insight and comments towards one another.
Can’t you just agree to disagree and end it like adults (which you are not acting like btw)?
In my opinion,every single person on this planet is a different “color”.
“Color” representing your unique way of lifestyle and how you decide to portray yourself.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:12 am
thats why its a …
thats why its a documentary of a racist neighborhood… read the title of the f-ing video