Both races have to go by the same standards, the same rules and same laws. Throughout the movie both races attitudes change towards each other. When the team came up with a new warm is when they really showed conformity. Both the African Americans and whites football players came together and did the warm up. So in the beginning of the movie conformity can cause problems by helping with segregation and discrimination, but by the end Conformity was shown
In the movie “Remember the Titans” a southern community during the civil rights movement witnessed integration. There were predetermined stereotypes towards both races, which was over come through the communities’ passion for football. This film also illustrated how the issue of integration could be accepted into American society through the direct stories of the players on the team. Sunshine, a California born hippy was introduced to the team while at football camp, at first he was judged and discriminated on by both black and white players. However within a short time of the boys playing together friendships had formed and the judgments were lost.
Doris Runnels Eng. 102 Professor Luper Cultural Change of the Image of Inter-Racial Relationships The way America has perceived both African American and white people has changed drastically in the past thirty years. Before, African Americans were considered to be the enemy and that whites are far more superior. Now, most times it is seemed to be no issue between the two races. The way that this cultural change has been professed can be seen in many films and their remakes.
I think it is because of two basic reasons; firstly, as Tatum points out, one can relate better with peers of their own race because they too understand the difficulties of being a minority. I think she really made a great point, how can we expect a white person to understand the racism towards African Americans. Ms. Tatum gave an example regarding a 9th grade substitute teacher suggesting four-year colleges to all her white students and suggesting that a black adolescent male in her class go to a community college. It would be almost silly for that African American boy to sympathize with one of the white peers, not only would it be hard to relate to each other, it would be downright embarrassing. I actually think that the white teenager wouldn’t be able to see why the colored boy was hurt, they would just brush it off and give an explanation like “oh the teacher didn’t mean it like that”.
Yes, in that during a year marked by racial violence throughout the nation, an entire town took its cue from the football team and remained calm. It's not unusual in the sense that during this period many courageous black men and women, like Coach Boone, took risks to change society. Black young people, like Campbell, let go of their rage and forgave. Courageous white people, like Bertier and Coach Yoast, realized what was really important to them (in this case the team) and took principled but unpopular stands. This happened all over the South, perhaps haltingly at times, with backsliding often, but ultimately the actions of people like Boone, Yoast, Bertier and Campbell improved the lives of many people in that
The search begins with his desire to attend college. Education represented on opportunity to escape ignorance and poverty. The ability to attend the Negro college comes to him through hard work. As valedictorian of his high school class he receives a scholarship. He idolizes, Dr. Bledsoe, the president of the Negro College.
Remember the Titans is a movie that follows the story of the forced integration of Virginia’s T.C. Williams High School and the leadership dynamics that took place. The integration causes a racial crisis in the community when the iconic football team’s beloved white coach, Coach Yoast is demoted to Defensive Coach while African American Coach Boone is hired into the Head Coach role. Racism within the community makes it difficult for either coach to succeed without taking the significant risks of a strong leader during this controversial time. The two coaches have very different leadership styles and different opinions regarding the forced integration.
It widens their separation from the rest of the community and postpones the great day of reconciliation which is sure to come!” (pg 166). While whites were getting the best education possible, the “lower class” blacks were being taught under poor circumstances, with inferior materials. This placed invisible barriers in all facets of life for the black community, which in turn caused some to become complacent, just accepting what was without question. Times needed to change for the benefit of black youth the most. William Lloyd Garrison thought along similar lines.
This helped him gather many more ideas on the inequalities that blacks had to face because of whites. His brother Muhammad wrote to him, “The black prisoner symbolized white society’s crime of keeping black men oppressed and deprived and ignorant, and unable to get decent jobs, turning them into criminals” (Haley, 195). Which illustrates Malcolm X’s life perfectly, because he used to strive and care about school, but once he found out the true meaning of being black in American it twisted his character. Not being able to look forward to having a good job meant you could probably make more money on the streets hustling. With no ability to advance in society, he wondered if settling for a job like a janitor is really worth it.
Coach Boone started out using intergroup contact to help the newly desegregated school’s football team to try and overcome the walls that separate the two groups. An example of a superordinate goal of intergroup contact is when Coach Boone had everyone get off the buses and split the two groups up based on offense and defense rather than race. Then not only did they sit with someone of the opposite color but also that was their roommate for the duration of camp. At camp Coach Boone basically reduced everyone to nothing to create an equal level and built teams chemistry and camaraderie up from there. The recategorization part occurred when Boone had an idea to implement three-a-day practices until all the players got to know each and everyone of their teammates, which was his way of basically forcing intergroup contact and the players start realizing that they really are not all that different from one another.