Young Men Of Color Analysis

Young Men of color are being brainwashed into accepting a new and wrongful norm. This new norm includes bullying and racism, not just in school but in our environments and everyday lives. In the documentary “A New Normal: Young Men of Color, Trauma and Engagement in Learning” we listen to young men of color expressing their encounters with bullying, racism and discrimination, and how they were raised to adjust and let it become a new norm. We also learn that the young men in the video all had something in common besides going through racism, bullying and being forced into this new norm, they also shared the lack of courage to seek professional help when dealing with any problems or going through a death. Kashif, one of the young men that

They’re so many different ways school students are judged. According to Dr. Carlye from the film he mentions that many young men, especially young men of color are being pushed out of the school system for various of reasons. He says this is causing these young men to take the wrong path into criminalization, violence and emotional trauma. A perfect of example of this is Triston, a young male who was a special education student for most of his life in New York schools. Triston told us in the film from his perspective how it is being a student with any kind of mental disability in New York schools, he tells us that teachers would not teach the students, and allow them to think and solve problems on their own, teachers would give the students that answers for test and read to them without allowing them to learn or try taking test on their

They adapt to these life challenges by using their own resources. For example, students who suffer from a friend or relative passing away they tend to keep to themselves and not get professional help. Like Denzil for example, he says when he is going through something he lets his frustrations out on something or go out for a run to blow off some steam. This happens so much that the young men of color get used to it and manage to live with the outcome because it’s a normal thing for them. Denzil later on mentions he lost a friend to street violence, although he was hurting inside, he decided not to get professional help because as a young man of color this is something they would have to live through and move on because they think this is their new norm. Some of these young men in the film even uses these life crisis and experiences as a life lesson. Young men of color are surrounded by death all their lives, that these traumatic events will eventually become a daily routine for them, to the point where they won’t show emotions or it would lead them to do worse. This is why having professional help is important, we should allow others to have someone to talk to about their issues because professional help will change the way they think and instead of the young men accepting this new norm they can realize it does not have to be that