Enslaved Africans, creating trauma and confusion, ultimately brought them together into a close-knit community when they were forced to learn the language of the oppressor. “Possessing a common language, blacks could find a way to create community and a way to create the political solidarity necessary to resist” (Hooks, 170). Enslaved blacks took fragments of English, created a counter-language, and put their words together in such a way that the oppressor had to rethink the meaning of the English language. “Because in the incorrect use of words, in the incorrect placement of works, there was a spirit of rebellion which claimed language as a place of resistance. Using English in a way that broke standard usage and meaning, so that white people often could not understand black speech, made English more than the language of the oppressor” (Hooks , 170). With the black community, now defined by their language, having this sense of "us" and "them", black against white, they now had something that the white man did not have and could not in any way take from them . There is a connection between the broken English of displaced and enslaved Africans and the diversity of black vernacular speech used in the black community today, enabling rebellion and resistance. bell hooks states: “The power of this discourse lies not simply in resisting white supremacy, but also in creating space for alternative cultural production and alternative epistemologies – different ways of thinking and to know which were crucial to creating a counter-power. -a hegemonic vision of the world” (171). It is interesting to step back and analyze the contradictions we face in our society when it comes to language and culture; White supremacy and the capitalist P... middle of paper ... is limited the exposure that black people have been able to see. They were therefore only represented as musicians. Some of these short performances were well known. For example, “Symphony in Black” (1935) and “Jitterbug Party” (1934). As black people were able to play roles in larger films, they were seen with a negative connotation. They showed black women as battered and promiscuous Jezebels. Men were seen as thieves and slaves. These perspectives were instilled in the minds of society, as this was the only direction in which black people were displayed. Therefore, this has created many different stereotypes about black people. In today's film, black people are still portrayed this way. In films like For Colored Women, he shows the portrait and tribulations that some black people face. However, when society watches films like this, it is difficult for them not to believe in these stereotypes..