American History X - Chimezie Ononenyi
Other than Derek’s father, the movie depicted most of the characters in gangs as being racists. This path of showing how racism comes about in America does not explain why people really hate each other. It rather provides a narrow pattern through which many people would conclude that gangs play a huge role in enforcing racism.
Derek’s was released from prison and his life seemed to quickly change to becoming a better person. Even though the movie seemed to explain how much of a role that sending gang members to jail would play in eradicating racism, it is not really credible in the minds of American people.
Too many people had been and continue to be sent to jail, but such solution does not do much to helping better the society. Not to say that the movie producer was definitely trying to show that sending bad people to jail is the only solution to the problem within the society, but I do not agree that in reality racism will go away by sending more people to jail.