Discussion Response

I have decided to respond directly to Scott's comments on my post and discussion. What better way to get an A right? haha. As for resentment that is shown among the characters within the movie and Baldwin's essay there is alot. The tie among this topic is the fact that the team, as well as Baldwin himself, are hated and treated poorly because they are not the societal norm or favorite. This generates a bad repoure for the outlook of the members of the team and Baldwin's father when he tries to predict his future. In both cases they shrug the views of others off their shoulders and continue to truck along perservering their goals. Eventually they gain the respect that they are ultimitaly looking for and get past the hard times of hatred and disgust. Honestly I only see one difference between Remember The Titans and Baldwin's essay. That is that the team doesn't even get the notion to lash out at the "haters" but Baldwin does. This ties me into thoughts about the black panther society and its influences.
Baldwin's father was trying to teach him how to live life among the discrimination. He did an ok job at it in my opinion but lost his son's respect in the process. A different approach would have been to let him experience these different types of racism first hand as a child so that when he grew up he would not have been bombarded with so many things at once. Baldwin's fathers motivation to be the father he was was to best prepare his son for the future and they way that he acted although it was, relationship wise, destructive it was also constructive and did eventually prepare him for the mindset that he had to take to endure the hatred that was at the table.