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2. Discuss what Maverick, Lisa, and King represent in terms of their respective tie to the
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4. Identify the speaker and the context of each of the following quotations. What does it
mean or what important or interesting ideas does it present to us? How does it lead us to
contemplate some of today’s most pressing social issues that the movie itself presents?

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(4.7) “It’s as heavy as a gun. If 115 had traded his weapon for this one, Khalil would still
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5. Discuss the role or the nature of media as presented in the film. Contrast what is being
presented in the news reports on TV and Starr’s televised interview with the account of
Khalil Harris which Starr presents to the grand jury. Do you find that the mainstream
media in our own immediate society function in the similar manner as the ones in the
movie?
 6. Carefully read the following excerpts from some of the most seminal sociological or
literary works on black lives and think about how the ideas or concepts which they
contain can be applied to what we see in the movie.

(6.1) After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a
sort of seventh son1, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world
which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the
other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's
self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused
contempt and pity. One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two
unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from
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(6.2) A friend argues that Americans battle between the “historical self” and the “self self.” By this she stereotype dinardi
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personalities; however, sometimes your historical selves, her white self and your black self, or your racism
white self and her black self, arrive with the full force of your American positioning. Then you are
standing face-to-face in seconds that wipe the affable smiles right from your mouths. What did you
say? Instantaneously your attachment seems fragile, tenuous, subject to any transgression of your
historical self. And though your joined personal histories are supposed to save you from
misunderstandings, they usually cause you to understand all too well what is meant.
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(6.3) Consider color-blind ideology from the perspective of a person of color. An example I often share
occurred when I was co-leading a workshop with an African American man. A white participant said to
him, “I don’t see race; I don’t see you as black.” My co-trainer’s response was, “Then how will you see
racism?” He then explained to her that he was black, he was confident that she could see this, and that
his race meant that he had a very different experience in life than she did. If she were ever going to
understand or challenge racism, she would need to acknowledge this difference. Pretending that she
did not notice that he was black was not helpful to him in any way, as it denied his reality—indeed, it
refused his reality—and kept hers insular and unchallenged. This pretense that she did not notice his
race assumed that he was “just like her,” and in so doing, she projected her reality onto him. For
example, I feel welcome at work so you must too; I have never felt that my race mattered, so you must
feel that yours doesn’t either. But of course, we do see the race of other people, and race holds deep
social meaning for us.

from White Fragility: Why It’s Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (2018) by Robin Diangelo

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This refers to a concept from folklore where the seventh son of a seventh son is believed to be given special
powers. However, the seventh son must be male and born in an unbroken line with no female siblings born between,
and to a father who himself is the seventh male child born in an unbroken line with no female siblings born between.