American History X

In the movie “American History X,” Derek Vinyard creates a white supremacist group where he lives. He starts a lot of trouble in his town against all kinds of races. He gets groups to break into grocery stores and harasses Asian workers who own the grocery store by beating them or pouring all kinds of different food over them. One day he sees two black men breaking into his car and he kills them. He is sent to jail for three years. In jail he joined the white gang so he was not killed by the other gangs of the Hispanics, blacks, and the other gangs. After seeing that the white gang trades with the Hispanics, he decides to leave the white gang because he believes that the whites have more power and should not interact with anybody else. This leads to him being beat up by the white gang and leaving him stranded to be killed by anybody. He makes a friend in his work area in prison. He is a black man where they become good friends through out the movie. The black man saves his life and gets the black gang to not kill him. After getting out of jail he learns that his little brother has joined this white supremacist group that he has created. The group has become more powerful and organized than when Derek was in charge of it. After this Derek tries to break up this group and end this after realizing that black people are not terrible people and should be killed or harassed. I chose this movie because it shows how the white people were brutal and savages to the black people even though they believed that the black people were the killing machines. I chose this movie because it shows how racism is a big part of our society today like it was in the past.

In Ronald Takaki’s Chapter 2, “The Temptest in the Wilderness,” the English were slaughtering the Native Americans. They were saying that they were the savage beast because they had the huge muscles. Also they said that Irish could not dress like them or act like them in any way seeking that the English are much more superior to the Native Americans and the Irish. This relates to the movie because the white supremacist group thought they were better than everyone. They believed that only they could be the right ones and no one else could be. They killed because of ideas in their head that blacks are terrible people and should die. Yes he kills some because they attacked him first. They attacked a grocery store because Asians owned it and they believed that they were taking over all the jobs and the whites would not have any jobs and the Asians did not belong there. They wanted no one to be like them except the people who were part of the white supremacist.

This movie is a great movie and shows you how bad white supremacist groups and be. It shows the side of how the white supremacist organized and the reasons why they wanted to hate everyone that was not white. I think it is totally wrong to have these groups and I am completely against them.