Don't Shoot Until You See.....

Stuart Hall's article The Whites of Their Eyes talks about the ideological formation of race. Hall starts off by giving talking about three things to remember about ideologies. Ideologies are not stand alone concepts, they are what we form our world around, and they influence our ideas (pretty much stuff that we have heard before). He goes from that to talking about the ideology of race. Hall makes sure to start off by saying that the idea that media is the lone "ruling class" that enforces these ideologies is wrong. However, media is one of the biggest producers of these ideologies. To explain this a little more, Hall defines overt and inferential racism, the first being blatant racism, while the latter being a "set of unquestioned assumptions."
From there, Hall introduces and explains a few of the base-images of the "grammar of race." The base-image's shown were the slave figure, the native, and the clown.
For my case-in-point I wanted to focus on the slave figure
I am pretty sure everyone knows who this famous actor is. Morgan Freeman is a phenomenal actor. He really is amazing. The parts he plays, in my opinion, can give him the base-image of a form (my own) of the slave figure that Hall portrays.
I actually disagree with Hall in the fact that the the slave image is really only "childlike." I think that the slave image should include the wise old man image within it giving a feel of an Uncle Tom or something along those lines. Now I am not also saying that Freeman is adhering to "Master" either. With Freeman, I think that the fact that he is always the wise supporting character give him the image of always less important than the main character (always seemingly white).
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