Diversity In American Me 10/19/15

In the film American Me, the diversity of men, women, ethnicity, appearance first starts off with the Los Angeles where the Zoot Suit Riots took place during WWII. At the time many immigrants and migrants got to LA for the defense effort and new servicemen roamed throughout Los Angeles. Many of the US Sailors and Marines attacked young Mexicans because they saw the way they dresses as Zoot Suits to be more or less unpatriotic and raped, beat, and verbally abused Mexican men and women. From the first scene we already see the father and mother of Santana get into trouble with Sailors as Santana's father is getting a tattoo finished and sailors break into the shop and take Santana's father and drag him into the streets where police officers ad other white civilians would join in and continue to beat him, while his wife was being raped by numerous disgusting Sailors.

Throughout American Me the film is based upon three bestfriends Santana, JD, and Mundo who created the gang known as La Primera. They end up breaking into a store escaping a rival gang and trying to be silent, the owner comes out and shoots JD in the leg. JD, the white one of the group grew up alongside Santana and Mundo was always left out and treated poorly by other people around them just cause he wasnt the same skin color as his hermanos were. After the incident we see Santana and Mundo end up in Juvie where Santana gets raped by another kid his own age, after it happened he killed him, which led to jail time and we see things get more into race and respect stance. Santana's gang grows, in prison Mexican, White, Blacks all control the what goes inside the prison and it conflicts with all of them as one hate crime can cause a total mayhem. When Santana and his men were in each owns cell they passed a wire of cocaine alongside to each other down the cells, and once it arrived to an African American man he tapped it, and took nearly half of the stuff and kept it to himself. Santana's group knew who tampered with the wire so they did what they would do to anyone who messed with their things and killed him. The blacks took it as a color assault and closed down the entire prison causing mayhem, killing guards and led to a stand off of Blacks vs Mexicans but ended in nothing to keep balance as it was not intended to be a act towards race. We see how deepthese guys are in the gang, from learning to live in and out of the prison, going against blacks, whites, asians, and adapting to how every little thing around them will lead to something worse if done wrong. No matter what the race of these people were, all had to learn to survive and react to people and places around them whether they liked it or not, as it was time around WWII if you were not white, everyone was in fear to even walk the streets, the way these people are born into lifestyles that they have to follow and arent able to change is unimaginable, our fear to evolve is what keeps the world to continue to worsen day by day.