Running has always been an important part of cinema. The way directors and film producers make other races appear in films like City of God can be disturbing. While the film depicts the truth about some parts of the world, the way it portrays young black men as savages who kill and take drugs couldn't be further from the truth. Just because something like this happens in one part of the world doesn't mean all young black people are like that. The film City of God showed the incredible world of youth gangs in the underdeveloped area of ​​Rio de Janeiro, where gangs ruled the world. the streets and young children were initiated into murder before they even became teenagers. Third world urbanization is creating chaos-filled, crime-ridden subcultures, much of which is the result of drugs and other illegal activities. In his article Race the Power of an Illusion, Dalton Conley states: “The civil rights movement of the 1960s truly marks both an opportunity and a new danger in terms of race relations in America. On the one hand, the civil rights era officially ended inequality of opportunity. It officially ended de jure legal inequality, so it was no longer legal for employers, landlords, or any public institution or accommodation to discriminate based on race. At the same time, those civil rights triumphs did nothing to address the underlying economic and social inequalities that were already in place due to hundreds of years of inequality.” (Conley, 1). Although the civil rights movement succeeded in achieving equal rights for blacks, it failed to stop the brutality that still plagued them. The urban environment is so overcrowded that people live on top of each other. Throughout the film there are shots of the city,... in the middle of paper... and gunshots. In conclusion, after watching this film, it is clear that one can see how young black men are seen as murderers and savages. This is not true. There have been many admirable scholars and scientists who come from African American culture. This film, although it depicts what happens in South America, takes the violence committed by black youth too far. You can't watch a film and think that a race is like this. The filmmakers depicted black youth in a harsher light. Works Cited City of God. Dir. Fernando Meirelles Perf. Alexandre Rodrigues, Matheus Nachtergaele 2002.O2 Films. FilmConley, D. Race the Power of an Illusion, 2003, Interview with Dalton Conley, Classroom Readings2014Kennedy, R. Viewpoint: The goal of affirmative action should not be "diversity" but to correct wrongs. Time. Class notes 2013 2014