Like
Tarzan,
Rocky represents white men winning back their dominant role in American life. Even though
Rocky isn’t explicitly white supremacist, like
Tarzan, it’s still based on the assumption that white people naturally deserve better than nonwhite people—or that the United States rightly belongs to them, rather than all the other groups who also immigrated there (or the native peoples who originally lived there). At the same time, shows like
Roots show the power that media can play in spreading antiracist ideas as well.