happened for centuries. The relationship of black and white people doesn’t run smoothly. Black and white people always distrust each other. White people do
have prejudice over black people. They think black people are related to criminal hideous, because black people live in slum area, have no proper education, and are
majority have drunkard. Conversely, black people are positioned lower than black people.
The conflict happened between black and white people caused difference point of view about the problem in community and physically. Often we hear
about riot and fight between races, this also experienced by black people in America. For about two centuries since seventeenth century black people had
become slave by white people. The slavery system greatly influenced how whites define and deal with black.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH FINDING
Unconditional film is about a young lady named Samantha Crawford who
met her childhood friend Joe Bradford. Although the film was taken from the real life of Joe Bradford, they took Sam as the main character as we can see that she is
the narrator of the film. The whole plot is also about her struggle of life to find her lost happiness after she lost her husband. This film showed may prove on how in
21
st
century, black people discrimination still happened and how White people superiority still exist. The existence of Black people discrimination and White
people superiority in Unconditional film happened in many ways.
A. White People’s Superiority
In Unconditional film, Joe Bradford, a Black person, and Samantha Crawford, a White person, were described as a childhood friend that unexpectedly
met again after they grown up. Joe helped Sam to find her happiness and to go on chasing her dreams after the grief of the death of her husband, while Sam helped
Joe in many ways even since they were kids. Unlike the other White and Black people relationship, Joe and Sam have a very strong bond to help each other. They
were a childhood friends living in a place where the racism value were still high. It was a time when Black people cannot have a same facilitation as the White
people. But, Joe Bradford was one of the Black people that went to a school with a White people majority.
In the beginning of the film, thinking about the unfair death of her husband, Sam was trying to commit suicide. On the other hand, Joe’s upbringing child,
Keisha, just got a car accident. Sam heard Macon’s Keisha’s brother scream and hurriedly help Keisha and bring her to the hospital.
Picture 1 00:06:17
From the picture above, we could see how Sam helped Keisha. She was holding up Keisha and it showed at the film in a slow motion. Not only she got Keisha to
the hospital, Sam also showed her affection when she was checking Keisha’s condition, but unfortunately, Keisha was sleeping. So, she just made a promise
with Macon, Keisha’s brother, to see them again at their place tomorrow morning. Before the accident, Macon and Keisha got into a store in one day when it
was raining. Macon tried to steal some food because they were hungry, but they got caught by the officer and they ran away. Unfortunately, Keisha got hit by a
car. This shows on how black portrayed as poor people and the portrayal of Black people as criminals.
Despite being in 21
st
century, even years after the civil right movement, Joe still got some discrimination. He might able to attend a school with White people
majority, but no one accept him as a friend. His teacher introduced him to the students at lunch. She smiled as she was talking to the students, but afterwards,
she told Joe to find a seat with scornful eyes. Joe was confused. Nobody seems want to sit with him. There was even a girl who mocked him and called him an
afro
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. When he seems to find a seat, a kid told Joe that the seat has taken that there is no room for him, Although the seat is spacious. Joe took a courage to sit
beside the kids, but the kids leave him. Only Sam stayed at the seat, over Joe to trade food, and even make a promise to trade again tomorrow. Below are some
pictures which portray the discrimination that Joe’s face.
Picture 2 00:09:46 Picture 3 00:09:42
Picture 4 00:09:59 Picture 5 00:10:06
After the school, Sam got tripped by the kid who left the seat besides Joe. Not only he hates to be with an afro, he also hates the people who was friend with
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Afro is African American which also referred as Black Americans or Afro-American, are citizens or residents of the United States who have total or partial ancestry from any of the
native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa.
