Inhumane In Glory Road

In Remember the Titans we witness Coach Boone fighting for civil rights, signifying the image of an outsider integrating into a foreign white team as their coach. Director Boaz Yakin, uses techniques to strengthen Coach Boone’s character where the initial hate and disrespect towards him succours the development of a meaningful arc. The disrespect and aggression is employed when a brick is thrown through his house window, threatening him with the derogatory coloured comments calling him “Coach Coon”. The pressure of quitting was not felt and heroically he encompasses the journey with Yakin emphasising Boones evocative discipline and determination forcing integration amongst the segregated football team. This technique is employed when we witness Coach Boone stepping up, pushing equality for the players in a determined strike to stop racial abuse for good. His actions initiate the forced building of friendship and acceptance when he forces both races to get to know and accept each other at the camp. Yakin heightens the themes of overcoming racism when Boone rallies the troops together to support their team mate during a sad time. Instinctively, the implicit segregation is evoked further bringing unity to the team, Coach Boone emerges as a ‘hero’ to both the coloured and white community.

So the first cultural conflict in Glory road is colored people versus white people and it’s the most important issue in the movie. In the movie blacks are treated prolly just because of their skin color. A really sad scene from the movies was when Texas Western went to eat at a dinner and when Ched went to use the restroom he was jumped by three white men. Another reason from Glory road was when Texas Western went to play other colleges they were usually welcomed by other schools by throwing trash at the Texas Western players in addition when the players names were be called for the starting line up

At the beginning Blacky becomes aware of the apartheid of white and black first in the players at the local footy team, the

When he had arrived in Buffalo, Lewis’s first reaction to when they had finally reached his Uncle Otis’s home. “When we reached my Uncle O.C’s home and Dink’s house, I couldn’t believe it, They had white people living next door to them...on BOTH sides.” (Lewis and Aydin March Book 1: 43) Segregation in the north wasn’t a big deal to people in the north than it was in the south and from that he experienced a lot during that visit in the north. Once he had returned back home, he knew what was different now, he understood what the problem and differences were while he was up in Buffalo and at home. It came to him when school time was coming back around in the fall. “ In the fall, I started right the bus to school ,which should’ve been fun. But it was just another sad reminder of how different our lives were from those of white children.” (Lewis and Aydin March Book 1: 47) Between the black and white community, Lewis saw how “degrading” it was when it had came to school. They didn’t have the nice playground, the nicest bus, roads, and the ugly, sad sight of the prison full of black men and only black men, but he had managed to get pass all of the gloominess with a positive outlook of reading. “ I realized how old it was when we finally climbed onto the paved highway, the main road running east from Troy, and passed the white children’s buses..We drove past prison work gangs almost every day the prisoner were always

explained what it was like to be African American in a certain time and place.”

The story begins with the author telling us what The Alamo meant to him and also naming the heroes of the Texas Revolution. He explains that there was a deep segregation in his hometown of Henrietta as he was growing up he never talked to an African American kid until he was attending college. Since he was just a child he didn’t really understand why people of color were treated differently or looked down upon. Sadly discrimination also happened within his family as he states that “Not taking blacks seriously as individuals—and at the same time reacting to their incongruous presence with hysteria (either comedic or tragic)—was a major part of our “way of life.” (p.16).

Rhoden uses different writing techniques to get the reader to view black sports history from different perspectives. Throughout the reading, readers are learning that the history isn’t so much inspirational as much as a struggle and wants to focus on the victories as much as they focused on the defeats. This book seeks to tell the story of the rise and fall of the black athlete, but also to point the way toward redemption. The novel is driven by the purpose of finding light and bringing real power to the African American athletes. The history lessons imbedded in the 40 Million Dollar Slaves interlace the ropes of innovation and conflicts that today define sports today.

“Battle Royal” provides a realistic portrait of the difficulty of being a black person in a

When you live in the suburbs of Atlanta, it was easy to forget about whites. Whites were like those pigeons: real and existing, but rarely seen or thought about…everyone had seen white girls and their mother coo-coing over dresses; everyone had gone to downtown library and seen white businessmen swish by importantly, wrists flexed in front of them to check the time as though they would change from Clark Kent into Superman…those images were a fleeing as cards shuffled in a deck, where as the ten white girls behind us were real and memorable (179).

These battles are directly represented by the barbarous fighting by 10 boys in a ring, being witnessed by whites in high social standing. Totally engrossed by the fighting these men yelled cruel things and became frenzied. This is representative of the how our nation’s white population treated African Americans for many years. Often they took a stance of authority, feeling superior to the black minorities. This belief is portrayed by the men’s angered actions toward the boys.

As long as they worked hard, they could win against those who discriminate and spit at them. Coach takes a stand against racism by putting many skilled african-american players in the starting lineup. “This is more than just a game now.” (Glory Road). Coach Haskins believes in equal rights for all, and he realised that with his actions, he essentially proves his point that African-American players contain potential just as capable to be good players as those that are white.

In Glory Road, we see the idea of changing the truth to fit the agenda of the media. Although the storyline the movie follows is very similar, the truth behind some of the things is shaky or not there at all. One of the most racist things in the film did not actually happen per Jeff Merron. In the film the team returns to their hotel and blood is all over the walls with a message on one of the walls. Merron writes “this incident almost certainly didn't occur” but he does say that derogatory comments were said to the team throughout the season (Merron, 2009). There are several other things that are added or changed to amplify the feelings have while they are watching the movie and hope to teach a lesson in the long run. After watching the movie,

The film uncovered the discriminatory acts of adults and their children towards Cordia’s predominantly black basketball team. These heinous acts became more apparent as the team won many games, only in this change did they become a problem for those who lost. Students expressed their feud with the team as they would mock then by dressing up as a guerilla. Despite this, the team did not let it discourage them as they had to focus on what was at

Mothers and Fathers woke up to screaming babies, unable to comfort their children because they were stranger like. Everyone came down with food poisoning because they now had to cook their own meals. The irony of the play is that white people feel so superior to black people, but could not survive a day without them. Black people were treated poorly, with little to none respect, but when they disappeared they were highly sought after. The white men pleaded for their return, only to offer their jobs as wonderful memories.

The authors tone in this story was ruthless, he didn’t care who died if they were a prisoner, it was inhumane and it was depressing to read. Smith had to kill somebody that he knew as an adolescent in school. He was trying to search around for other soldiers that got lost in the mix . The commander says “I’ll need you to count the bodies and he said the prisoners that die will give more strength because they will have food from the ones who died.”(Travers) That showed the commander did not care at all what happened to the prisoners and did not care about what smith had to do as a person to get rid of them when the prisoners wasn’t working. Using federal inspection reports from the Official Records, Gillispie demonstrates that while Union camps had problems such as poor sanitation, structural deficiencies in the barracks, and shortages of fresh water in the actual camps of the prisoners (Robins, 2010). Smith could just smell the smell of death everywhere. It was inhumane because the toilets were described as, filled with feces to the brim, The prisoners had water shortage which is the main source to life on surviving. Every morning they checked the beds to see who was dead that didn’t get up in the morning from malnutrition, infested lice beds and infections.(Travers,2015) Those prisoners were killed and brought to the hole by other prisoners. Smith’s job was to