One Battle After Another: The Common Enemy.

I have had almost a month to sit on this film since seeing it on the first watch i instantly knew this was the film for me. The themes in this film from deportation concentration camps to how white supremacy controls everything are just up my alley. If you read my V for Vendetta article then you know how i feel about the current state of the world right now and the current president, I will spare you that for know but i do think this film has one very important message which they will not accept you. You may be asking what do i mean by that who is they and why won't they accept you, "They" is white supremacy "you" is the white person who is ashamed of dating or marrying a POC and now wants to be apart of white supremacy. We see it clear as day in the film when in the end Sean Penn character still dies even though he thinks he did everything right. They try to kill him and he still desperately wants to be apart of this group so bad that he goes back and still pleads his case to them but in the end they were never going to accept him. The lesson is why try to fit in to a group that was never going to accept you in the first place. This also fits into the black man that is desperately trying to fit into white circles constantly shaming or putting down his race, He sees that everything that has happened to his race is his race fault and not the political system that has hindered its growth. The reality to this White supremacy will never accept you because you are not white and even if you are white they still will not accept you. You have no reason to try to please a system that does not want you to have basic things in order to survive. This brings to me my reason for naming this article the common enemy, i think in this film you see there is one common enemy capitalism and white supremacy. One battle after another basically shows how those go hand in hand they are one in the same, you cannot have one without the other. Capitalism makes everything so bad because it turns everything into a private industry food, water, shelter, clothes etc they basic thing every human needs turns into a monopoly instead a necessity. Then you add in a system that has only ever benefited whites and you get majority whites at the top of the food chain who only care about what whites have. This is the essence of why they go hand in hand they only have one beneficiary whether you like it or not, this is a harsh reality for some white people to face but it is the truth you have an inherent bias because of your skin color based on a system that has catered to you for years. My question to you is what will you do with this? will you ignore it and continue to act like it does not exist? or will you realize this and do what you can to help others less fortunate than you? The choice is yours i am just here to share my opinion and offer a different perspective. In the end you should use this film as a way to dive deeper into these things more than i have done in this article for sure. Every political movement in history has been one battle after another from civil rights to Palestine and Sudan. And just like the end of the movie we must always keep fighting.