Blog #15

In the movie, Remember the Titans, the whole team overcomes many obstacles. The movie is about a Virginia high school football team and their journey though the football season as a team. This movie is based on a real story, in the time where African American students where being to go to all white schools for the first time. The Titans are a football team of kids of both white and black races. At the beginning, all the team members are brought to a camp, the white players wanted no part in their African American team mates and their African American coach. But after working hard with each other and getting to know each other, race no longer became an issue. After the camp, school started up. The school was being integrated and many of the students and parents were very upset. The only accepting white people in the school were the ones who played football with the black students. The Titans football team was looked down upon and many other teams believed that they stood no chance because they had African Americans on there team. Instead of losing every game, the Titans flew past all expectations and in the end won the championship. Days before the championship game, the team caption, Gary, got into a car accident and ended up paralyzed from the waist down. His new best friend, who was a black man, was the only person he wanted to see at the time of his accident. This shows that, Gary had overcome racism and liked this black man because of who he was and not by what he looked like. In many ways, the Titans overcame many odds and in the end were victorious.