American History X
When I started watching the movie I wasn’t sure I would like the topic and what I assumed the movie would be all about. The main character Derek I doubt could have been played by any other actor, He drew me into his character and the whole movie. Having worked in the prison system and then fifteen years in the county jail I could name at least 200 men and even women who I witnessed struggled with the gang mentality of the Arian Brotherhood. Even after their release quite a few made it years without reverting back to the old ways, some re-entered the prison system and others perished from gang violence. I could have easily have been in Derek’s shoes while growing up in the time and place that I did. I enjoyed how …show more content…
I would not have ever got involved in racism and or gang violence. I had grown up in a household with my father talking like Derek’s and I knew as a young child that it had to stop and made the choice to change how I live. The circle of hate that gets passed down from generation to generation has to stop, someone has to stop the derogatory and hateful things generations before us did as a daily norm. I am not saying it is easy and it wasn’t to stand up for my morale beliefs against people I always looked up to but I did and have helped my nieces and nephews not go same path that past family members did. Until we stop glorifying in songs and movies shootouts and hatred it won’t stop. Rap songs and movies about days past that put into our children’s minds how great and how much power gangs had in the past with dealing drugs, stealing and killing it will continue. It is really hard for me to even think if I was in that situation and things I would have done or how I would do it differently. If my family would not leave and my little brother was involved in the racist gang I had created I doubt I would leave
When I started watching the movie I wasn’t sure I would like the topic and what I assumed the movie would be all about. The main character Derek I doubt could have been played by any other actor, He drew me into his character and the whole movie. Having worked in the prison system and then fifteen years in the county jail I could name at least 200 men and even women who I witnessed struggled with the gang mentality of the Arian Brotherhood. Even after their release quite a few made it years without reverting back to the old ways, some re-entered the prison system and others perished from gang violence. I could have easily have been in Derek’s shoes while growing up in the time and place that I did. I enjoyed how …show more content…
I would not have ever got involved in racism and or gang violence. I had grown up in a household with my father talking like Derek’s and I knew as a young child that it had to stop and made the choice to change how I live. The circle of hate that gets passed down from generation to generation has to stop, someone has to stop the derogatory and hateful things generations before us did as a daily norm. I am not saying it is easy and it wasn’t to stand up for my morale beliefs against people I always looked up to but I did and have helped my nieces and nephews not go same path that past family members did. Until we stop glorifying in songs and movies shootouts and hatred it won’t stop. Rap songs and movies about days past that put into our children’s minds how great and how much power gangs had in the past with dealing drugs, stealing and killing it will continue. It is really hard for me to even think if I was in that situation and things I would have done or how I would do it differently. If my family would not leave and my little brother was involved in the racist gang I had created I doubt I would leave