Remember The Titans Racism Essay

In the movie “Remember The Titans” there were many different themes throughout the movie, the biggest being racism. Racism is discrimination towards people who are a different race, or who have different beliefs. This theme was pointed out in the movie various times, because the movie was about a school that was segregated. “Remember The Titans” was about a football team that had white as well as African Americans on it, which was new to this team and this community, and the team eventually became a family after they learned to put their differences aside. This essay will explain the theme of racism, and give reasons from the movie to support the theme.
In the movie the coach for the team was African American. Many of the people around the town weren’t supportive of this, so someone threw a brick …show more content…
The reason the assistant coach was asked to lose the game was because the community wasn’t accepting of the idea that a team with different races could be undefeated. The people who were in control of the sports administration at the school tried to blackmail the assistant coach by saying if he didn’t lose the game he would no longer be eligible to be put into the hall of fame at the school. The assistant coach considered making the team lose, but then he thought it through and came to the conclusion that he should try his best to make the team win even though it might not be helping him.
This essay showed how racism was a major theme throughout the movie “Remember The Titans”. The two reasons shown in the essay were just a few out of the many racist things that happened during the movie. The movie “Remember The Titans” was about how white and african american teammates who came together while there was still racial tension everywhere else in the community, and they all learned to overcome their