The Personal Side of Bias, Prejudice, and Oppression

One of my all time favorite movies is Remember the Titans because it is based on true events and it shows the true struggle that one man made to make his football team see beyond color and work together as one. The story developed when segregation was still happening and blacks and whites attended separate schools, drunk from different water fountains, and was not welcome in many eating establishments.

In Alexandria, Virginia at the now desegregated T.C. Williams High School they hired a black football coach to show good faith, but truthfully they was trying to set him up to fail. His passion to bring his team together and fight the racial diversity within the school and town was powerful. He made each player get to know each other for who they are and not see them for their color. The team worked hard and they as a team over came the racial diversity and they began playing as a team. These boys became role models to the town as they seen how they came together and supported one another, but like every story their is still people how have that one tract thinking and they don't give anyone a chance that is different from them.

This movie moved me so much because it showed how people was really treated back then with the name calling, throwing things at them, making them feel unintelligent, inferior, and nasty even. My heart broke for those boys because know one deserves to be treated that way for any reason. I felt ashamed that whites acted in such behaviors. I just wished that I could take it all back, but that is impossible. The only thing we can do now is move forward.
If one man can make a difference like Coach Boone did that shows that anything is possible when you are listening to others with an open heart and giving others a chance. Believe and support each other and tremendous things can happen. This football team over came diversity during the time of a  football camp and taught racial equality to their community. It only takes one to begin change.