The dinner conversation that takes place in the start of the movie amazes the viewer as to how racist a person can be. After the death of their well known father, the family faces troubles which makes Derek pay heed to his father's racist views and we can see them blaming the blacks for his death. We see him joining a neo-nazi group and simultaneously we see that the family propers, then again depicting that the family is a male - dominant family. The climax in the movie is the brutal and inhuman killing of a black person by Derek, when he smashes his face in the curb, depicting his cruel and unsympathetic nature.
In one of the readings by tatum, she says that can people of color be racists? and she replies that they cannot benefit from racism systematically. Which is true as here we can see that the blacks cannot do anything in front of a group with 100 white people all racists.
The turnover in Dereks life is when he goes to jail, ironically, where he himself becomes a victim to a brutal crime by a white person and became friends with a black decent person, which was hard for him to digest. Here is another example of stereotype we discussed in class, that blacks are not considered to be decent, which is ofcourse not right.
He gets out a prison a changed man, and thus to get out of his racist group, he had to pay his brothers Danny's life. They killed him. But we know, the viewers know that he would not return to his old ways of violence begetting violence. Similarly proving the statement in La Heine, "Hate breeds Hate". This movie provides a haunting look to racism but this gore view of the film did affect peoples opinion on such racist groups.
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