Remember the Titans

I chose the scene in "Remember the Titans" for my first media portfolio item becasue it is a good example of racisim in America. "Remember the Titans" was a movie about the first interacial high school football team. Once the team accepted one another for who they were and forgot each others racial backgrounds the team became very good. I chose this scene of the movie to write about because it shows how whites in fact did not want to talk, play, or work with blacks.

This situation is directly related to Johnson chapter 8, and the concept of "it's better this way." The thought that blacks actually prefer living with white people, but white people feel they are to good to live or work a with black people. In this part of the movie Denzel Washington asks coack Youst to stay on his coaching staff and work as a defensive coordinator. When asked, coach Youst's only response is to show Washington the way out of his house. Johnson writes on how whites think blacks can not be held on the same social level as they are held on. This is a great example because white people can not take the "back seat" sort of speak to blacks. White people think that there is no racial problems in America. That thought only keeps us racial father apart. We need tot adress race in this counrty and work for racial equality. The fact is that the odds are against anyone who thinks that one day blacks will be held on the same standard that whites are held too.

I believe that this movie does a good job portraying how far blacks have come in their challenge to gain social acceptance among white people. In the beginning of the movie blacks are treated as dirt, and the lines between whites and blacks are drawn very thick. But, as the movie progresses the team starts to accept each other and as the team begins to accept each other, so does the inracial communtiy they are apart of. By the end of the movie blacks and whites are living together with less problems and issues among themselves. This two hour movie also makes you realize how racial problems have decreased over the past decade. Now more than ever I believe blacks are held on a level of society thats as close to whites as there has been in the past. A good example of this is how close Senator Obama is to getting to be the democratic canidate for presidency. If elected he would be the first multi racial presidental canidate. That is a huge step for the black community and should keep a fire lit under the butts to keep striving to reach their goal of racial equality.