American History X question

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? Will there always be some problems with race relations in America?

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I don't see anything that says it's getting better...

Louis Farrakhan probably turned it off at the curb stomp moment. If he would have just kept watching, we might all be holding hands.

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I think racism will be around forever because people like to associate with similar people, but 500 years from now, I don't think it will be anywhere near as relevant as it has been the last 100 years.

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I could see that.

I thought the message was racism = bad. He tried to get this through his brothers head but before he could it was too late

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but 500 years from now, I don't think it will be anywhere near as relevant as it has been the last 100 years.

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Ummm, you need to watch the movie 2012.

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1. Gangs and cults (including skinheads) recruit young people who feel weak and disaffected by promising them empowerment. They take them and provide their lives with structure and false sense of security, while taking them into a dangerous life.

2. What kind of examples do you set for your loved ones? Ed Norton wanted to get his little brother out of the life, but actions have unforeseen consequences, and the dominoes had already been set in motion before he decided to change.

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I think you are making the race issue in this movie smaller than it is, but these are two very good points. It always amazed me in this movie that Ed finally got his little brother to see the light, but he gets shot for blowing smoke in someone's face.

I also like the gang point. While, in the case of this particular movie, the gang made the whites feel powerful since they thought they were being wronged by society, it only ended up hurting some of them.

Racism, is and always exist because one race can't be happy when its simply made fun off, or put down by another.

Every race has had a slave or has been a slave, Every race has been in a type of war, same as the next, We all will find some way to get along.

When a natural Disaster strikes the earth or country per say like Hati?, does race really matter.

Racism comes from a psychological part of the human mind. If I say "hes short because he's Asian does that really mean I am being racist?", and when you look at someone like Yao Meng how do you know, that I wasn't just being funny or saying He is short because a lot of Asian people vary in the short size?, The racism probably comes from the person in General because its really just Psychological.

to everyone who has posted on this thread, well done. It has been a long time since I've read through a page of posts and been this impressed the level of thought. I guess that's a testament to the movie's ability to create discussion. It kind of blows down all of the doors. That, and the Movie/TV is pretty civil, by TR standards.
The movie's ending was realistic in that there was no round happy summation of old Vineyards rejection of his past. I think it might make the point that white washing the past can not be done, which speaks volume about how some approach the issue of racism in the US.
Will there be racism? Sure the US is built of a basis of relatively constant immigration. The people who arrive most recently will always face the lingering eye. What's really missing from the debate about racism in the US, and probably elsewhere, is how it CAN NOT be viewed in terms of black and white. Asians, Latinos, Middle Easterners, and Indians (subcontinent), all factor in. I am constantly amazed by how little is made of Black/Latino relations particularly in urban areas.

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I think you are making the race issue in this movie smaller than it is

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Re-reading my post, I probably didn't make my point very well, and I'm not sure I can without getting long-winded.

My suggestion that skinhead orgs share things in common with most street gangs, as well as my belief that people join them for reasons other than race are just based on personal experiences I probably can't explain adequately in a message board post.

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I felt like one point was that any group in our society can feel like they are being wronged, whether it is true or not. No race, group or creed has a monopoly on feeling wronged. IMO the most important, and telling, thing is how that group reacts to the feeling or real or perceived wrong.

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this is true. I think when he went to jail and met the black guy he washed clothes with ( can't remember his name), he realized that not all people that aren't white are bad. I think he also realized most people in the world are wronged in some way, and, like you said, you kinda just have to deal with it. In most cases you just can't go and hurt or kill people because you think they wronged or harmed you in some way. Oddly enough, the people he thinks wronged him, in the end, actually did wrong him. Black people killed his dad towards the beginning and his brother at the end. Do you think he'll go back to being a skinhead or is he totally past that now?