500 Years Later
"500 years later" reflection “500 years later” is a documentary filmed the tragic and inequality treatment for African people after the slave trade. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, European colonists increasingly turned African slaves for labor to Caribbean and Europe. In the 200 years of slave trade, hundreds millions of African slaves were shipped to America, Caribbean and Europe. The Black inferiority and White supremacy is still dominate in the Western societies and it results in the poor health and education, failure in self-identity, crime and poverty for Black people. And the racial inequality and mental hurt in Black people is passed from one generation to the next. According to the film, black people are struggle for many kinds of inequality and racism in western societies. Education is a key problem that encountered by Black people commonly. The film expressed in that education is the passport for the future and it is the most powerful weapon to change the world. And education is not only serve as a function to provide knowledge to people, it is also provide the fully understanding to people know themselves in order to make them to be confident and proud of them own. However, education has not played a significant role in improvement of social class and self-esteem for the Black people. The inferiority of Black education should be considered as the most important factor that contributes to the lower socioeconomic status of the Black people. According to the book “Black families”, every class level of Blacks have been provided even more inferior education. When the segregated school was legal nationwide, the inadequate budget, backward teaching devices and shorter school years in segregated school detrimentally affected on the Black students’ academic achievement. Although the segregated school did not exist any more, the inferior education is still reflected in subtle mechanism such like negative teacher attitudes and