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Discrimination In Remember The Titans

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Martin Luther King once said “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character”. Racism is the intentional act of antagonism against someone of a different race/culture based on the belief that one’s own race is more superior. This problem is major in the society today, it doesn’t matter if you’re black, Caucasian or Asian it can affect you. Racism is such a big issue that it has made it has made it into many films some being; Remember the Titans (2000) and The Boy in Striped Pyjamas (2008). These films are all thriving for one outcome and that is to change the minds of all citizens about racism and end discrimination.

Remember The Titans (2000).
In 1971, a court order forces three high schools in Alexandria, Virginia (two white, one African-American), to bring together the students and faculties. This resulted in Bill Yoast (Will Patton) head coach of the T.C. Williams High School football team, to step down from his coaching position and coach Boone (Denzel Washington) is arranged to replace him as the school's first black staff member. Coach Boone is definitely not welcomed with open arms, either by the school's staff OR the students. The newly combined team is full of players (black and white) who have little to no trust or respect for one …show more content…

Set during WWII, this story is seen through the eyes of a young boy named Bruno, the son of a commandant at a Jewish concentration camp. As shown in the title Bruno experiences anti-Semitism in a different way, he believes the people at the camp always wear their pyjamas but obviously that is not the case. Bruno lives a privileged life to have not experienced prejudice, however; Shmuel lives an unprivileged life, he has been brought up with the violent acts of the commandants and has the understanding of

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Denzel Washington who played Coach Boone leads the Titans to a successful football season by showing leadership and dedication towards his football players. The movie is about the path and mind of the football players as they are forced to play on an integrated football team. In Oliver Gruner essay, You’re Only as Good as Your Last Game: Remember the Titans Remembers Civil Rights suggests that the “film depicts the struggle for civil rights in the South as an ongoing process, one which is not isolated to a signal narrow historical epoch. Furthermore, this struggle is shown to require the active involvement of both African American and white characters, and thus avoids the singular tales of “white redemption” that are said to have been common to the “civil rights cinema” of the 1980s and 1990s (Leiter, 33)”.

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Before 1971, there was no integration in schools in the small city of Alexandria, Virginia. The white kids went to their school, and the black kids went to theirs. Remember the Titans is a film about a small-town high school football team in rural Virginia during the early 1970s. It is a film that focuses on the hardships and triumphs that the T.C. Williams football team, the Titans, had to endure as one of the first integrated teams, as well as the growth and expansion of a closed-off mind that people all have until they get to know the true meaning behind something.

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Coach Boone stresses the idea of respect; he doesn’t care if his players don’t like each other but he expects them to respect each other and maybe, they will learn how to play the game of football like men. As a leader, I have to be aware of my surroundings and the individuals around me that I could possibly be influencing by my actions but also by my character. The goal of a team is being able to say you are giving something that is bigger than yourself, one hundred percent effort, including your resources. A team is so much more than just one person, without fellow teammates a leader cannot

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Henri Tajfel (1979) anticipated that the “groups which people belonged to were an important source of pride and self-esteem. Groups give us a sense of social identity: a sense of belonging to the social world.” (McLeod, Social Identity Theory, 2008) Remember the Titans (2000) is an American sports drama film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Boaz Yakin. It is a true story which started with the integration of black and white students at T.C. Williams High School in Virginia. However further problems emerge as with tensions high, the well known and loved head coach at the school, Bill Yoast, is replaced by a new black coach, Herman Boone.

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In the film Remember the Titans, racial prejudice and stereotypes are evident throughout. At the start of the movie we are taken back to 1971 where we are introduced to the town of Alexandria in Virginia and the new high school that resides in it, as two schools recently combined to form one desegregated student body called T.C. Williams High School. Football is an immense part of this town and for the people residing there. Shortly into the film, head football Coach Bill Yoast, nominee for the Virginia High School Hall of Fame, is demoted to assistant football coach and the school board hires an African American man by the name of Herman Boone to take his place. This starts an uproar in the Alexandria community as desegregation hadn't been

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