timmykam Productions

The film, Sorry to Bother You, aired in 2018 is a revealing film that tackles the controversy of normalized whiteness.   The issue of racism is explored throughout the film, as the main character, Cassious attempts to move up in the world.   This, mobilization requires him to abandon his stereotypical black position in society in favour of being whiter.   In his attempt to implement, a “white voice,” the main character goes through an internal conflict in which is reminiscent to the ethical dilemma of democratic racism.   This film is very enlightening as it depicts the adjustments blacks employ to assimilate into western society.   Race is defined as, “an idea created by human beings in certain historical and material conditions and is used to represent the world in certain ways, under certain historical conditions and for certain political interests” (Chan et al., 2014, 4).   Race is evidently a social construct created by people in order to be abl...