black girl

This film noted as the first true African film was about a girl from Senegal who goes to France to be a nanny; or so she thought. She is basically kept as there servant and treated like a child.  I'm not sure if she could understand french although she definitely had conversations in french throughout the movie...Maybe she wasn't aloud to speak to the family? I'm not sure

I think this film has a few parallels to the demographics of inner cities and how the working poor are literally prisoners or slaves to "the system" or "man".  If we take a look at how the movie was played out we see that a group of poor women are waiting on a sidewalk for work as a maid.  A white woman walks up and picks one of them and so begins the trials and tribulations of this girl who was just looking for a solid job to get out of her poor neighborhood.

If we look at how the working poor in America work two or more jobs while earning minimum wage only to be able to afford low income shelters we can see how this film actually shines light on the awful working conditions around the world.  For instance, some of us work 12 hour days 7 days a week and can barely afford to feed and clothe themselves.  The girl in this film has what appears to be one or two sets of clothes and is so fed up by the time she gets paid due to her employers attitudes toward her she would literally rather kill herself than stay and work for them.  

The job market in America is starting to turn around, just barely, but for the past I'd say six years or more people have been loosing jobs they held for a long time because their employers needed to cut cost.  Inner cities where people are already poor and schools are closing down are being hit hard too.  Leading people who are constantly threatened by violence and drug addiction back into the circles they have been trying to get out of.  (For those individuals that are actually trying to better themselves)  However, I really don't blame the ones who go into gangs and get addicted to drugs etc... It's a terrible reality but, faced with the insurmountable odds that they'll become something and move out of the ghetto what would you do?  The chances you'll be shot by a stray bullet or stabbed for your measly paycheck on the way home are still going to be pretty high.

Thanks to the lack of funding for inner city schools this cycle just reciprocates.  I know there are charter schools that parents of inner city children have to fight tooth and claw for, but even then what are the chances of prosper.

In summation, the things we do for money will always be baffling to me.  I honestly hate the idea of money and would much rather run into the woods and live like a hermit off the land.  At this rate I'm going to be in debt til I'm 30 for a degree that may or may not give me a job in a field that I'm interested in.  Meanwhile I'm 23 living at home with a truck that sometimes works no cellphone and no laptop because I can't afford to fix them.  Why? because I work for tips.  I drive 600 miles a week in a veritable death trap just trying to get out on my own two feet by getting a degree.  I could just get two jobs and in a few months have a working car a cell phone and everything else I want right now instead the lure of a college education threatens to leave me at rock bottom.