Renditioning on followers-Nicole Carroll
As I was rewatching Boyz N' The Hood their was a conversation that reminded me of some lyrics from Sister Act I. They go like this,
"If you want to be somebody,
If you want to go somewhere,
You better wake up and pay attention."
These same lyrics have brought Derek to his very own feet of who he wants to be. In American History X, I found that Derek was pushed around from the start of his life through the words of wisdom of his father. He from there developed that very same hatred, that the world has started to come to. He believed that the African Americans were outsiders to his white supremacist environment that he lives in. He explains this through his actions of killing the African American men that were trying to steal his car.
Later, we find that a lot of people do end up learning through example. We see this in the eyes of Danny when he speaks into the camera to Seth, "I hate anyone not Protestant. They are a burden to the race and they are the enemy. I hate the fact that it is cool to be black." We find that this bothers Derek, because as he found out...He had to wake up.
I find that Derek as himself took a step back when he was in prison and watched how everything in a society worked. Yes, we have people fighting for our backs at all times, but if you mess with the wrong people they will come back to bight you in the butt. Both Derek and Danny found this out the hard way, because the hate groups were responsible for Derek's shower incident as well as Danny's death in the bathroom. The thing was that these two really didn't do anything wrong except for embarrass his white supremacist group in public and look at the wrong person the wrong way. Yes, these are both extreme cases and "The black characters in each of these films are depicted in stereotypical fashion," we still see trends in the gang violence in places like LA, New York and other parts of the world. It's the hate that people need wake up and see, because if they don't it will only continue.