This movie gives all people an opportunity to get a visual idea of the hate and should people the struggles of having a skin color that’s not accepted by all. Straight Outta Compton gives people of other races a chance to see what African-Americans continue to endure. In August of 2014, unarmed Mike Brown was shot and killed by an officer while he had his hands up in the surrender position.
This shooting is an example of racial violence because the shooter, Dylann Roof, allegedly plotted to attack African-Americans. In June, there was the Charleston church shooting, which led to the death of nine unarmed African-Americans. In 2012, George Zimmerman pursued and eventually shot Trayvon Martin, because he assumed Martin was “up to no good” because he had on a hood.
would be casually hanging out on the streets and the police would come and harass them assuming they were gang members because they were African-American teenage boys with white T-shirts and jeans.Ĭurrently in America, countless unarmed African-American males and females have been killed, harassed and/or treated unfairly because of their skin color. Straight Outta Compton - In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Many of their problems came from their controversial lyrics from songs like “F*ck The Police” and “Gangsta Gangsta”, which speak about racial profiling, police brutality and the lives of youth in Compton, Ca.Īlthough Straight Outta Compton’s setting is during the late ’80s and early ’90s, the film shows the issues African-American youth are faced with today.įor example, in the film N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton portrays the racial issues that N.W.A. was one of the first groups to introduce gangsta rap and West Coast hip hop into society. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, MC Ren and DJ Yella. Straight Outta Compton is the story of the legendary hip-hop group N*ggaz Wit’ Attitude (N.W.A.), whose members originally included Dr. She soon realizes old age is not as whimsical as she thought. rose to stardom and gives a glimpse of the police brutality and the hate African-Americans endured in the late ’80s. When Mackenzie is struck by lightning at Coachella, she wakes up as the seventy-year-old Rita. 14 and stars Neil Brown Jr.(DJ Yella), O’Shea Jackson Jr.(Ice Cube), Corey Hawkins (Dr.Dre), Aldis Hodge (MC Ren) and Jason Mitchell (Eazy-E).The movie follows the legendary hip-hop group N*ggaz Wit’ Attitude (N.W.A) and explores the racial injustice they faced. Straight Outta Compton was released on Aug.
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