User talk:Dyonnawynter

The movie “American Son”
I haven’t seen the play but watching the movie on Netflix made me want to write about it. This movie has a lot of race tension going on. The “American Son” is about a interracial couple which consist of a African American mother and a Irish father,who has a biracial son.The parents are both educated as well as the son. Fast forward to a night where a worried mother is panicking about her lost son. She’s talking to a white officer wanting answers from him about her son whose skin is like hers “black”. The white officer started asking her questions about him but he’s asking stereo type question like “what’s his street name? Has he ever been arrested?(he asked that a few times and got the same answer which was no) Does he have any tattoos on his face or gold teeth.” The mother gets upset and starting saying “...he’s bashful, looks away when he smiles. He plays the guitar...he hates fried chicken and he’s afraid of clowns. “. The white officer says he completely understand where’s she coming from and I can relate but does he really. Do you think he understands how to be a human and have black skin and to not be treated like the next human who has white skin? Do you really think he understands how to have a black son and ever worry about will my son ever have to go through police brutality? She wants him to put himself into her shoes that’s why she asks him “do you have a black son?” His response was “ I have 2 daughters, 2 white daughters.” So why would he understand what’s she going through. She Waits hours to get answers from the officer but as soon as her “Irish”husband comes in he get answers immediately. The mother who is educated made sure her son was educated and made sure he didn’t speak incorrect English. Most of all she made sure he lived the American dream. If she would have taught him how to survive as a black man in this cruel world we lived in he could have lived past the age of 18. The American dream is only for the white. The American dream is not and shouldn’t be real to the black community. I once read a book by Ta-Nehisi Coats and he stated “...people who would insult your intelligence where thieves would try to enlist your own robbery and disguise their burning”. Coates was saying black people are meant to fail and white people want to see black people fail. So there is no “American dream” for us. It’s only going to cut us black people lives short and cut the next generation lives short if we don’t teach them how to survive as a black person. -wynter Dyonnawynter (talk) 17:17, 2 November 2019 (UTC)