A Different World

The episode in class of 'A Different World' really struck me in a peculiar way. Why, because it shows as a country how far we have come from racism. Is racism still here? Absolutely. Will racism always be here? Unfortunately, yes to some extent. It seems as if the race card (or races battling out for superiority) has always been played out on television, but this episode deliberately and quite heavily (at the end of episode) spoke of blacks and whites fighting for a higher status. Or, maybe it was the white fighting for a higher status and blacks fighting for equality? The television I have watched during this present time period is never this deliberate on the subject of race. In fact, I believe we all agreed in class that you never see television episodes similar to 'A Different World'. It was also interesting how they spelled out the N word at the end of the episode. It was another situation in media where whites had been framed as the superior race. Not only did the situation indicating that whites were superior, but the cop who played as the median between white and black, was also white. It was kinda another way of the media expressing race admonition, stereotypes, and racism.