Cole Storer-Boyz 'N the Hood
The movie Boyz ‘N The Hood is an accurate representation of how upper class America found a way around the civil rights movement. From the start of the movie it is apparent that the setting shows the level of poverty these kids are growing up in. “The man� is holding these members of the black community down. It is shown a few times during the movie. For instance when Furious shoots at the intruder in his house, the black cop suggests that it was a bad thing that he had not shot the “nigger� after showing up an hour after he had called 911. Another instance of this is at the end of the movie when Furious, who I like to refer to as the voice of reason, is explaining to the people how the government is trying to keep them down by putting liquor stores on every corner, by trying to kill them. He is completely right. John Singleton was putting the fact that even 30 years after the civil rights movement the black people of America were still being suppressed out there, “Capitalism, more interestingly described by James Nadell as "racist capitalism" in his essay "Boyz N tlte Hood: A Colonial Analysis," works toward maintaining the socioeconomic status of the rich and suppressing the
attempts of the black underclass to overcome poverty and suffering�(Chan, 37), He is arguing that although the civil rights movement gave afro- Americans the hope of advancing in the capitalist market of the United States and climbing out of the pit of poverty, that their attempts would be unnoticed. It was about the rich getting richer from day one. This movie was excellent at showing how society found a way around going through with the civil rights movement 100%.