you think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.

Color-blindness was a big idea in this movie. Multiple times it was referred to. Mr. Drayton when talking about his daughter said that she saw John as just a man, not a colored man. Given, it is implied that all parties involved understand the difficulties that come with an inter-racial marriage. The quote that I started this post out with even explains that John identifies differently than his father, a man of a different generation. John goes on to elaborate that a marriage like the one that he wants will not be accepted by society until his fathers generation is long dead. Is a colorblind society really the future we are moving towards? No. After all, isn't the point of these movies I am watching for my senior project to observe and record the differences between races, the good and the bad, and make a commentary on the, make a movie out of it. Isn't that what culture really is? I think so, that is kind of the point of my project, a cultural view of race. In a colorblind society, it seems to me like there might not be any culture to view on race.

The moral of the story that is this movie is more so about love than race. Race is used to create an example of two 'star-crossed' lovers, with a world of hate between them. There is a reason for these two lovers not to be together, and its not just the hate that the two lovers would have to face and all the ostracizing, their families will endure their difficulties too, and there children will as well, being the offspring of two different colors. The lovers are ready to face that, but the parents do not approve. They think that the lovers do not know what they are getting into. But they do. Only when Mr. Drayton realizes the love that he and his wife have and have had, and how much that means, does he realize that it is unfair to deprive something, even half that, to anyone else. Race is used more as a tool for storytelling in this movie than anything else, but there are still a lot of interesting observations to be made.

There is a character that keeps reappearing in the movies I am watching for this project. No, it is not the same character that Sidney Poitier plays in every movie (a well educated, respectable black man, that no white person should hate or be afraid of), but the black, mammy-esque house maid. She has appeared in every movie I have watched so far, sassy, motherly, black house maid. In this movie Tillie repeatedly confronts John about his relationship to Joanna. She questions his motives, accuses him of betraying his race and goes to great lengths to give him sass in attempts to protect her, basically, daughter. Tillie is also apparently a whiz in the kitchen and can easily take care of the Drayton family's ridiculous requests in the eleventh hour, regarding dinner plans, and is well educated on the latest family gossip. Next on the list is In The Heat of The Night