Discrimination In Remember The Titans

Not all relationships are perfect. Some relationships will start with people not liking each other, but throughout the time it gets better. People will learn to get along and it may take a few minutes to a few years. In the movie Remember the Titans, that's how the relationships were. The teammates, the coaches, and the community all had a relationship problem in the movie.

Remember the Titans We’ve all seen them, the movies, that leave us contemplating. They are the ones that soak up all of our mind. We’ve also gone through experiences in our life that leave us in the same situation, contemplating. The movie, Remember the Titans, includes both of those aspects that often leave us contemplating. Not long after the start of the movie, we meet any typical high school football team.

Making its debut in 2000, Remember the Titans is a film about how an African American coach Herman Boone faced with multiple challenges changes the existing ideologies of the whole town through the game of football. A film that is dramatically devastating is characterized by the transforming character dynamics, vintage setting, and compelling dialogue while inconsistent in its authenticity. Director Boaz Yakin is undeviating from this them of change that he portrays through both character development and dialogue. Arguably, coach Boone, starring as the central character in the movie he is unwavering in his position as a roughneck who is strong in his convictions. This is seen by the audience in his numerous collusions with defensive line coach Bill Yoast and players.

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.

In any facet of life, whether it is in a relationship, at work, or in school; teamwork plays a critical role in conflict resolution and inevitably success. William James once said, “A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain”, regardless of the fact that this notion may hold true for many circumstances in life, it especially holds true with respect to a sports team. From football, to basketball and even soccer, the might of a team working together determines the outcome of any given circumstance. In most cases, there will always be difficult team members, and for the sake of argument, such members are deemed the “weakest” link of a team. Carron, Bray, and Eys (2002) have studied the power that adequate cohesion

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

In “Remember the Titans”, Coach Herman Boone, who is played by Denzel Washington, is the first black man that becomes the head coach of an all-American high school team. He was going to be part of the of one of the first mixed race school at T.C. Williams High School. At first, he is not seen as the right candidate for the head coaching position but nonetheless, he was given the head coach position and would be working alongside coach Yoast, the head coach who had won 15 season titles at T.C. Williams High School. Although Coach Boone was a black man, he was very qualified for the position and had won several titles in the state of North Carolina to prove his competency as a head coach. He had a tough and rigid personality that showed others he wasn’t scared of the head coaching challenge that he was going to be facing at the newly racially integrated school and community.

“ According to the National Association of Social Workers Web site, racism is “the ideology or practice through demonstrated power or perceived superiority of one group over others by reasons of race, color, ethnicity, or cultural heritage....” The definition further goes on to note that “racism is manifested at the individual, group, and institutional level.” (Blank, 2013) Despite how much time has passed by, racism continues to be a huge issue today. We see it every day, some have even been confronted by racial discrimination, or racial slurs even. We see how the system could be for example: how blacks continue to get more severe punishments or blacks have higher the chance to get criminally sentenced than whites.

Defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, racism is the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce and inherent superiority of a particular race. Racism has been around as long as the concept of race itself. In Europe, the ideas of anti-Semitism were incredibly present and the Jewish people were used as scapegoats during major historical events, such as the Bubonic Plague. In modern day America, racism has been around ever since Christopher Columbus stepped foot on the continent and incorrectly identified the Native Americans as “Indians.” He stole these native people from their land and took them back to Spain as a token of his explorations, but this is only the beginning of

Racism is a social belief where members of a particular race possess qualities and abilities restricted only to their group which allows them to gain supremacy amongst other races. Racism is a never-ending social issue in the world. Although countries with high economic status are considered as culturally diverse countries, racism is still evident in their society. An example is the Great Britain. According to Corby the British border between colors, the black and whites, had begun during wars (2006).

Racism is the belief that one’s race is superior than other races. Unfortunately, racial minorities have and continue to be oppressed because they do not consist of the majority of racial identity in certain communities. Furthermore, this racial bias affects minorities throughout the world by distorting others’ perception of them by associating their groups with negative connotations that often are based on few occurrences within the racial group. Examples of racial discrimination can be seen in To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men, which are books that exemplify how people can be exploited, cheated and abused because of racial prejudice and inequality.