Remember The Titans Great Integration

Remembering the Benefits of Successful Integration

The movie Remember the Titans deals with the integration of black schools and white schools into one singular school, and it focused more on the integration of the football team. In focusing with the integration, the movie depicts many different aspects of integration that some people might overlook. At the beginning, they have fired the main white coach from the head coach position and replaces him with a black coach that moved to the area from a different state. The new coach has a few championships in football, but he must first get the team to come together in order to have this team earn one. They have a two-week long summer football camp and the new coach makes the football athletes

They find a way to keep one another in the right state of mind and they win football games left and right. They get to regionals, and they win the regional championship. After the celebrations one of the captains gets into a vehicle accident and gets paralyzed from the waist down and the team has a difficult time handling it. They then go into the championship game and figure out the referees are calling the game unfair. They end up finding a way to overcome the adversity but cannot get over the bump. Then some of the players are willing to bench themselves in order to put a teammate in, as a selfless act, in order to help the team win the game. They finish out the game with a victory and come home as the state champions. In the final scene it showed that the whole team showed up to a funeral for the teammate that had gotten paralyzed prior in the movie and demonstrated that they were all together. The beginning views of integration of white and black schools in the movie Remember the Titans demonstrates how racial violence and racial biases made the beginning of desegregation look unattainable, but by the

In the first part of integration, many businessmen had dealt with the idea of black people being inferior to white people and did not change their mindset very quickly after they were freed from slavery. This in turn gave white people the advantage to selectively get jobs that had mixture of races in applicants and it also gave preference to what the business owners wanted. In Remember the Titans the new head coach, who was a person of color, had put in for a job in his previous town but got turned down. His response to a fellow coach about why he moved here was “I left North Carolina because I was passed over for a job that I had rightfully earned. Gave it to a white coach down there who couldn’t even tie up his own football cleats” (Yakin, 2000, 5:56). In this way of bias, the new coach was running against a white person that clearly did not have the most outstanding qualifications for the job, but ended up getting the position over him because he was white. In this, I believe that the problem lies within the hiring committee that had the racial prejudice against people of color. Harber gives another example that demonstrates this in another way. He gives out “Under the racist system of apartheid there were separate schools for African, white, Indian and coloured (mixed race) students. The education provided was not only