Plato+and+The+Matrix

=Ok guys, I want you to complete this reading and view the clip (Either link should work.)=

[|https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Darren-Graham-English/404925682903618]

[] = = =Then I want you to jump onto the discussion page above and complete the following tasks that relate to the video clip:=

b) Another speaker talks of us being 'passive consumers' and how this is similar to the 'pods' that we see in The Matrix - explain this.
===c) How does The Matrix (the name and the movie) relate to Cornell West's notion that black people suffer under a 'hegemonistic white society' in terms of not seeing themselves through 'their own eyes'?===