At the so-called “gala occasion” of Tom Robinson’s trial, he is seen once again sitting with the Negroes, drinking from a sack. From this, it can be said that, because he is “contaminated”, even if he wanted to sit with the white folk, he would not be allowed to. That is, the white community do not want to include in their midst someone who has “fraternized” with the “dirty” blacks. .
By reading the principal’s speech, Richard was saying what the white power wanted him to say and to Richard this would be giving in to the very thing he hated so much. Richard was willing to leave school without a diploma instead of this. White people alienated Richard from his environment because he did not accept the way of life that other black people did. Richard’s relatives never understood Richard and because of this he was alienated from his family and his own people. Shorty is the young black boy who gets beat by the white people and jokes about it.
As Ernie and his teammates had walked on the field the viewers of the game had begun to throw their pop-corn at them because the coach had allowed black athletes to join the team. The discrimination on that field was so strong that even the referees had denied many of the touchdowns that Ernie had attempted and achieved. The coaches were forced into subbing in Ernie and replacing him with a white player just so that the referees would accept the goal. In conclusion the discrimination Ernie Davis was forced to experience was quite cruel and inhumane. Everywhere he went he was attacked both mentally and
When Bill Yoast the current coach for the T.C Williams High School football team steps down as head coach and is replaced by the non-white African American Herman Boone, the tension between the black and white communities hit breaking point. Most of the white players threatened to quit the team if Herman Boone was the coach. “I aint playing for no Coach Coon!” Coach Yoast then rejoins the team as defensive coordinator and assistant coach to Coach Boone. When the whole squad is assembled for the first time Coach Boone noted and was fully aware of the tension and distrust between the white players and the black players. As a way to assert his position as head coach, Coach Boone publically embarrasses captain Gerry Bertier, who is white and was showing attitude towards Boone.
The integration seems to be stifled in the cradle because of the oppositions, not only among the students but also the residents, and the long history of racial discrimination in the south of United States. The process of integration does not work smoothly among the young and impulsive boys in Titans until the midnight run to Gettysburg, which is a turning point laying the foundation of the unity of Titans. At first, boys do not get along well with each other. They refuse to sit together at dinning times. They do not want to communicate with each other.
It took time, but eventually Coach Boone was able to overcome this boundary among the members of his team, player and coaches alike, with the help of white assistant coach, Bill Yoast. Unfortunately, many people outside of the Titans football team did not understand this radical new idea, and remained indignant towards not only Coach Boone, but the team in general. One night while the Boone family and Coach Yoast’s daughter were spending the evening together at the Boone’s new house, a man yells from outside “Hey Coach Coon”, an obvious derogatory statement directed at the new African American coach. A brick then sails through the window, leaving shattered glass all across the floor. Immediately, Cheryl (Coach Yoast’s daughter) and Nicky Boone begin to scream out of fear, unsure about the intention of the noise.
In the beginning of the film, the white and black members of the team hate each other. Both sides have preconceived ideas about the other. The whites don’t want to “Play with any of those black animals” and the blacks don’t want to integrate either because they don’t trust “your people to be honest.” One scene where we seen this clearly is when Alan and Petey are forced to learn about each other at the football camp. They are sitting on opposite sides of the shot, facing each other like adversaries. Dividing them is a path running between them up towards a big traditional-style door to the centuries-old buildings of Gettysburg College.
Caucasian coach Bill Yoast is being replaced by an African American coach Herman Boone. The community is furious; all the Caucasian players refuse to play for the new coach. Coach Yoast encourages his players to give Coach Boone a chance. Coach Yoast became defensive coach, and the players agreed to stay on the team. It came time for football camp.
When your prejudice against something you stop it from growing. In the movie Remember the Titans the whites were racist to the blacks, they did not want to know each other, but the problem with this is that if they still carry this on, how can they move forward and work as a team. For example when they had a game Ray would miss a tackle on purpose because he couldn’t get over the fact that he was on a team with the Blacks. My thoughts about being prejudice are that being prejudice is useless and it does not get you anywhere. The football camp was made for blacks and whites to bond and respect each other.
This was happening in T.C William High . Bill Yoast was the head football coach, but when the school merged his head coach job was taken by a new black coach, Herman Boone. Although they had a rough start, but at last everything turned out fine. As mentions, Coach Yoast was the football head coach in the first place, but one day when a black coach, Boone, turned up in his office, it suddenly gave Yoast a shock. As Boone introduced himself, Yoast was really annoyed and he said, “The school board put you on my staff, I did not hire you!”.