malcolm x post 2- movie notes.

The other day we watched a rather intense video on several stereotypes about African Americans.  I was very shocked to learn all the different names and types like "brutes" and "sambos", which are only a few among the many to mention.  It surprised me that I have been unaware of these disrespectful stereotypes prior to watching the video.  The video depicted extremely well how the old cartoons and pictures really brainwashed people into having a common vision of an African American person, from black  people being drawn with big lips to always eating watermelon.  And yet this image was very far from the actual identity of an African American.  I think I along with a good majority of the class thought that the most bizarre type was "pickaninny".  When I was watching the cartoons and seeing the postcards of little children being portrayed as food, I was shocked and confused. I could not understand this type of stereotype at all no matter how much I tried to make sense of it. This video really opened a lot of people's eyes up to various stereotypes prevalent that we were just very unaware of.