The portrayals of pirates in the modern entertainment world are comprised of images of greedy, cutthroat, high seas adventurers who live a life of lawlessness with a trusty parrot, cutlass, and an earring. However, these views clearly misrepresent the socioeconomic and political factors surrounding the men dubbed pirates. Furthermore, they ignore the "revolutionary formula" Kenneth Kinkor describes in his article from C.R. Pennell's Bandits at Sea, in which he mentions the characteristics of liberty, …showed first 75 words of 702 total…

…showed last 75 words of 702 total…to the liberties an egalitarianism that it presented. The multiculturalism and fraternity views of a pirate arose from a plight against a socioeconomic and political system that knew no race. Though the common belief that it was easier to be white on land is strongly evident throughout the entertainment and uneducated historians who get their views from racially skewed information, it is entirely inaccurate because in the world of outlaws society's norms to not apply.