Paula Weinstein Character Analysis

Paula Weinstein is a movie producer. In her interview, she describes travelling to South-Central Los Angeles with other wealthy, privileged folks who had not been to that part of the city before to distribute food and administer relief to the neighborhood’s residents. At the time, the “multiracial / and multicultural line of people” volunteering to come together to help the struggling neighborhood seemed like a sign that change and progress was possible, and that the city’s racial tensions could be overcome by people determined to come together in “a kind of Jungian collective unconscious / connection.” However, after a year passes and Weinstein observes no tangible, systemic changes, she comes to see this connection as little more than a symbolic gesture. In the end, Weinstein decides, all the riots managed to do was fuel LA’s white, wealthy population’s preexisting fears about the Black community.