Can't We All Just Get Along?

Like the title of my blog post says, why cant we all just get along? In A Bronx Tale, one of the hardest things for me to watch was how the whites treated the blacks. Something I've gone by my whole life is that no matter what color your skin is, you're all human and everyone is equal, and seeing how the past really was is so terrible to watch. Growing up I had a black woman who helped my mom around the house because both of my parents worked. She was like our day babysitter and we thought of her as a second mom. Because she was black and I was around her every day, I grew up never ever thinking twice about blacks being different than us whites. But when I saw the movie scenes in A Bronx Tale, I realized not everyone thinks like that, or has thought like that in the past. Even if people back then when this movie took place didn't think of blacks as lower than whites, they still went along with the thought because of the sociological mindset and how they were raised. One really good example of this was when C's friends were all hardcore beating up the black boys riding their bikes. The 4 white Italians, C's friends, were SO into beating up the black boys when they weren't do anything at all to bother them. C even said before the fight started that they weren't doing anything bad so why should the whites bother them? C's friends didnt seem to care about this and beat up the black boys anyways, even trying to kill them. C, at first, watched in disgrace, and then, when his close friend called him over to handle one of the black guys, C pretended to, but really told the guy (who happend to be Jane's brother) to stay down so that the other whites wouldn't bother him anymore. C obvoiusly didn't WANT to hurt anyone, but because of his friends and what they thought, he had to pretend like he wanted to fight as well. This brings us back to the sociological part of it. C was brought up to think that blacks were bad and inferior to whites, but he didn't believe it. His friends did, so he had to pretend like he did, but in all honesty he liked them and had no problem with the black people of the Bronx! I thought this was really cool and if I were living in that time, I would want to be like C because I believe that I would still think equally of our 2 different colored skins.. I HOPE I would have atleast!