Discrimination In The Movie 42

In movie 42’s beginning, it shows racial discrimination and injustice against African American people. Like the other films, racial bias and insensitiveness bring ethnic tensions. The main story of this movie is a biography of Jackie Robinson, an important figure in the history of baseball. In 1911, Jackie Robinson was born in the southern United States and raised in California. Jacki Robinson was a barrier breaker for blacks in Major league baseball. Branch Rickey was instrumental in making Jackie Robinson, the first black player in the major league. He was not only gave Robinson much possibility but also provides mental strength. In 1947, when Jackie Robinson became the first professional player, other players refused to play with him on the same ground. Since 2004, Jackie Robinson day is celebrated each year on April 15, the day Jackie Robinson made his

All the players, regardless of the race and team, wore number 42 on their uniforms in memory of a player named Jackie Robinson.

Nowadays, most all members recognized that our society should open our minds and try to live together with the disabled without any prejudice and discrimination. However, only fifty years ago, visible prejudice and discrimination remained strong in various fields of society-such as Jackie Robinson’s bus incident. When we recognized the matter at first, it is nearly impossible to recognize the essence and nature of matter itself. The recognized subjects, especially race, starts to be distorted even when we defined everybody else in terms of race because of what we heard on their background. When each other’s definition is shared into society, it builds a social prejudice. And that prevailing social prejudice produces the social consensus. This circulation start to lead social members recognized