David J. Leonard, writes Grand Theft Auto V: Post-Racial Fantasies and Ferguson Realities to analyse the institutional violence and stereotypes against people of color. Leonard uses a reboot of a popular video game in addition to recent police brutality, to argue the reinforcement of accepted violence against people of color. While this is context is extremely accurate, this concept reaches far past an Xbox/Playstation Game.

Other than all black casted films, if we look at a majority of films containing a black character is it not uncommon that this character is a criminal, violent, or affiliated with another negative connotation. This portrayal only furthers the support of the very stereotypes. This is DANGEROUS for the black community, it is for reasons like this that people tend to overlook the promising qualities and focus on the negative ones of a Black person. An example being people pointing out the trouble that Mike Brown had gotten into as a point of argument against his rights as a human. However, when a white man gets into trouble with the law, people talk about how they are such a great person and they have so much promise.

Like many of the racist ideals that are a part of American society, this is very likely routed from the system of slavery. Throughout history white men have had much control over the Black community, them [white men] being the violent group of the two. Through the economic pressures of society Black men and women have been lead down a path of violence to get by in this world. However, that is not the life for most Black women and men, only what society has taught us to believe of them.

Citation:

Noble, Safiya Umoja, and Brendesha M. Tynes. The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class and Culture Online. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2016.