Secondly, Remember the Titans was an extremely memorable movie for anyone who has watched it, and it conveys the thoughts of this quote perfectly. This movie is about a white school and a black school integrating, and a football team coming together to form one, strong team instead of a segregated, weak team. The first example of this quote applying to this movie was in the characters themselves. When going to football camp, the black players had been sitting on one side of the bus while the white…
In addition films from Two-Gun Man from Harlem, Blazing Saddle, Lightning Jack and Buffalo Soldier helped clear up myths and untruths that black people did exist back then and they also could have been lawmen and cowboys. Many films just like Buffalo Soldier and Blazing Saddle and unbury America History. Walter Moses Burton was a former slaved turn farmer and then elected first black sheriff of American. Burton was the first elected sheriff in American in 1868. Also, Bass Reeves was one of the first black Deputy U.S. Marshals. Bass Reeves also arrested 3,000 people and even killed fourteen outlaws in his time as a…
The information presented in this article was something that did not surprise me. I have always been aware of the bias in sports when it comes to athletes. White athletes have always been considered the more mentally capable individuals. This stereotype has always shown in the analysis of the players. A white and non-white quarterback could have the same amount of athletic ability. The nonwhite Quarterback would be described as an “athlete playing quarterback” when the white quarterback would be described as “very athletic quarterback”. Throughout sports you will see white players in the position that is most control of the team. Non-white players often fill the rest of the roster when they 're “natural ability” is more of a factor on the team. The analysis of the bias is merely a reflection of the product that is on the playing field every Sunday. 81 percent of the teams in the NFL have white quarterbacks. So their analysis of the bias in commentary is an accurate representation of what’s on the field.…
In America, privileged is something we see every day whether it is gender, sexuality, age, socioeconomics, or religion. Tim Wise documentary on White Privilege discuss inequality of race between blacks and whites. In this paper I will discuss other privilege beside raced that are enjoyed by a preferred category. People of a particular category are in denial of privilege, such as rich people feel people of poverty put themselves in that predicament. Rich people feel there should be no government assistance that includes: public housing, food stamps, federal grants, and Medicare. In America women are paid 79 percent of what men make. I notice that women are chosen more for teaching and secretarial jobs while men get chosen for manual labor jobs.…
In the movie “Remember the Titans” is the story of an African American coach who was hired to coach a high school football team. He was faced with adversity because he disturbed the status quo. The coach decided to select his players based on ability and merit. This was occurring during the struggle of racism in Alabama, which was one of the most racist states in the nation. His team started chaos within the teammates, as the white players did not want to cooperate as a team. They later learned to play as a team leading the community to fear that the African American coach would win the championship. The Titans ended up overcome racism and won the game.…
In her piece for the Catholic weekly publication America, “Race in America: ‘We Would Like to Believe We Are Over the Problem,” Maryann Cusimano Love argues that racial issues are still present in America today. Love argues mostly against Delegate Hargrove’s suggestion that it is counterproductive to dwell on the past because not a soul today had anything to do with slavery. Love presents a strong argument that inequalities of the past still persist today…
Since the government issued some policies to make racial discrimination illegal and Since President Barack Obama succeeded in stepping on the American political stage, it seems America has entered the post-racial era. However, even though the U.S. has made an improvement in terms of racial issues, it is not easy to completely change the whole nation’s attitudes towards minorities. In fact, stereotypes and panics about minorities still exist. Among them, one popular stereotype is that minorities are hypersensitive to race issues, which is partially derived from the whites’ panic that the population of minorities will exceed that of whites. This can be best illustrated by…
Racism was alive and well during 1988 in Texas and is expressed through many different ways in the story stretching from the jerseys they wear, all the way to where they grow up. In this story, the team wears the colors of white and black, two of the most opposite colors, representing the diversity that is between the white and non-white people of Odessa. They struggled bitterly with racial discrimination, so much so that in 1982 it was placed under a federal court order to effectuate the desegregation both promised and denied nearly thirty years earlier. Although these troubling issues at the intersection of race, law, and sport dominated the 1988 Permian football team's season and inspired a Pulitzer Prize winning author's investigative chronicle, Friday Night Lights, to tell the tale of that team radically de-radicalizes the story (Duru, Jeremy). Of the three high schools in Odessa, one was 90 percent minority based and the other two were 90 plus percent white based. Black players are accepted on “white” teams like Permian because, after desegregation, schools without the talent of black athletes simply could no longer compete. As long as players like Boobie miles perform as they are expected to, they reap the benefits of being a football star. If something should affect their performance like an injury, they become expendable (Duru, Jeremy). Senior Brian Chaves, only Hispanic player and stellar student…
After watching this video I feel very enlightened and that I have learned a lot about African American struggles through sports. I never realized the amount of discrimination and prejudice they faced, nor did I realize the diversity challenges they faced.…
When the black and white schools were migrating, white American football players felt as if their positions were in jeopardy, a quote Garry “With the schools migrating and all, some of the players are worried about losing their starting positions.” and showed racial unity during the first…
The biggest theme in the film is overcoming adversity. Its something that exists and is real in the shape of defeating your opponents. Overcoming adversity is affirmed throughout the film. Remember the Titans is another great example of overcoming adversity. The movie starts out with a black coach, replacing a white coach in rural Virginia, which was white dominated at the time. When this happened many bricks were thrown through Coach Boones’s, the black coach, house. Riots and rallies were held at the school saying to keep the blacks out.At the beginning of the movie the white players were least bit excited to join black players to play football, but as time went on, they bonded together and eventually won the state championship. Gerry, white, and Julius, black, ended up to be great friends throughout the years even though at the beginning of their friendship they were bitter rivals. A movie watcher could see the hatred in their eyes as they passed each other on the field and in the school hallway. A scene in the movie…
The characters in ‘Remember the Titans’ are forced to face many issues that revolve around change and dealing with racism. An example being that a divided team due to the different skin colours are forced to play together, in Alexandra, Virginia which had a very high level of racial tension and prejudice during the movie. “Remember the Titans’ is about a local high school football team overcoming racism, prejudice and discrimination towards each other and the community, all while participating in a football season. The film views the struggles of being black in a white society that is trying to manage the integration that has been forced upon them and the struggle of being white in a time of racial change and being forced to alter their attitudes and beliefs about blacks.…
Friday Night Lights reminds me of the movie, Remember The Titans. It started with the blacks hating whites and whites hating blacks. The didn’t want to play with each other, go to the same school. The blacks had to eat at their colored restaurant, they didn’t feel comfortable playing football with them either but the coaches were not having the racist things on their team. The coaches made them work together and be a part as a team.…
Post-racial America means "a theoretical environment in which the United States is free from racial preference, discrimination, and prejudice" (Wikipedia). Despite America being a multicultural, heterogeneous country, often referred to as a "melting pot", such idealistic concept seems to be a far-fetched dream. Many saw the election of Barack Obama, the country's first black president, as a step forward in race relations and a sign that America is willing to put its racist past behind. After all, racism and ethnic discrimination in the United States has been a major issue since the colonial and the slave eras. However, even today it is arguable whether we can call the American society free from racial discrimination, hostility, hate crimes, and the unjust treatment of minorities. Statistics and poll results prove the doubts in the existence of post-racial society.…
The ethnic makeup of the United Stated is becoming increasingly diverse, with more mixed-race Americans than ever before according to the U.S. Census Bureau (2010). Today one in seven new marriages are between spouses of different races or ethnicities (Passel, Wang and Taylor, 2010). Polls tell us that Americans are becoming less opposed to interracial dating and marriage than in previous decades (National Opinion Research Center, 2002; Pew Research Center, 2003), many Americans accept racial mixing as the inevitable result of globalization.(Omar,2009). According to R.A.C.E (2009) “People are growing up at a time when they do not feel they have to choose friends, or significant others based on color and they are easily and freely crossing that invisible but present ever-color line”.(p.2). The American public should prepare itself for a sea of change in the way in which we think about race, ethnicity, and its place in American society.…