Racisam

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I was thinking about topics for my essays, and a lot of things popped into my head like for example how about start and connect my opinion on one of my favorite movies? This one I believe that I can write about and make sense out of it, its about Racism and I believe that everyone can relate because we are either racists or not.
American history X is the title of the movie. American History X focuses on the life of a skinhead. The main character of this movie is Edward Norton. Edward Norton as Derek Vinyard, a Southern Californian skinhead who must do time after committing a hateful murder. Once in jail, his mind opens and he actually thinks and he sees the error of his ways. Upon reentering the real world, he must now turn his attentions to his younger brother Danny, who is heading down the same path as his brother.
The movie's main storytelling device centers on Danny's excellent writing ability. After turning in a report of Hitler's "Mein Kampf", when asked to discuss a book about civil rights, Danny's now being forced by a hard-love school teacher to write about his brother Derek's journey from the "heights" of murderous skinhead leadership to the brutal rape in a prison shower. In the film there are a lot of scenes of racial violence: of black youths kicking a helpless white student in a high school restroom; of a Korean-owned grocery store terrorized by skinhead thugs; of an African American whose skull is split open by a skinhead who orders him to lie face down on a curb. Unlike many Hollywood films, it shows this young man's evolution. He sees all the destruction that hate causes, not only to society at large, but also to his own family. There lies point of my essay, the lesson: Everyone suffers from hate crimes.
At times it is difficult to tell what message this movie is trying to put across. We know that in general, being a racist is wrong. But, while watching this movie, I, and I’m sure many others, ...