My proposal for my digital essay is to undergo an analysis of The Message by Grandmaster Flash. The song a strong controversial song of early hip hop talks about large social issues that include poverty education government drugs and more. Since it talks about so many topics I cannot focus on every part of the song. My paper and my digital essay will show what the effects of white flight are. White flight has been a term that originated in the United States, starting in the mid-20th century, and applied to the large-scale migration of whites of various European ancestries from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban regions. Which meant neighborhoods that are considered ghettos now were once flourishing regions. Yet when white americans all at the same time decide to get up and leave with their businesses, tax dollars, and their assets it devalues the whole land. African americans and other minorities are left there and face terrible dangers that to this day still occur as an affect of white flight. As a result of white flight The Message talks about the negative effects of white flight it such as homicide, rape, drug use and more. This limits a person’s ability in the area to expand and have more choices for a brighter future. It enables them to think this is the only place they will ever stay and survival, thus all the reasons why all the social problems occur.

For my video I have decided to use a friend in video where i will take slowed down video footage of everyday life in the subways and outside in certain areas effected by white flight. The person in my video will be wearing shabby clothes. But the same person will go into very rich neighborhoods that the whites migrated to, yet instead of wearing shabby clothes its professional showing two scenarios of the same person in two different areas. It will show the difference in the quality of life in each area and strongly depict special meanings of the message.