So you think you are gangsta

Two Families

In the Godfather we have the family as an organized crime syndicate , in Boyz in the Hood , we have African American referring to each other as brothers . I got the title for this because that is the biggest similarity in between the two movies , the family connection

The Godfather is a classic film making 3rd in the AFI 's top 100 movies of all time . One of the reasons it is a great and compelling movie is that it focuses on the realities of an alternate world where people have

to make dramatic choices every day . It does this without trying to politicize the movie it shows the struggles of a crime family in a fight for their literal life

Boyz in the Hood is a very political movie and that is its downfall While it pretends to be interested in the welfare of the family , mostly the son , and African Americans in general , it posits many positions about race that are absolutely ridiculous . In the movie the father blames white society for all of the problems of the black race including liquor stores and gun shops . I guess I just haven 't heard yet how the government subsidizes these

When talking about drugs he says , we don 't have the resources to bring the drugs here , we don 't have airplanes and ships . Somehow Columbians are now responsible for the African American plight . I 'm sure that Columbian 's can 't get sleep at night because they are worried about how to bring African Americans down , that is the only rational explanation for what is happening

Contrast this to The Godfather and you see they never blame white men for their problems . There is a few times that they are called negative names , and the story in the beginning , where the undertaker asks to have his daughter 's attack revenged , he never says that they did what they did because he was Italian . It could have been because of that because the attackers were implied to be white , but it was never mentioned

I think it was interesting that one of the sons was adopted and not Italian . There is an implication in this that although the Mafia is largely an Italian organization , it does not discriminate against some races , although the use of the work nigger ' by Sonny does show negative attitudes towards those people . He says this when he says that they should sell drugs just to African Americans . The reasoning was because they wouldn 't get in as much political trouble

This seems logical and is a much better explanation than that there is a conspiracy against African Americans . This is not an acceptable situation either , and we need to focus on bringing all of America together rather than tearing America apart

I am reminded of the quote by John Donne from "Meditation XVII " of Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions "No man is an island , entire of itself every man is a piece of...