Entry 10

For this entry I'm choosing the movie "Remember the Titans." Because it is a very good example of affirmative action, and desegregation. The movie takes place at the time when T.C. Williams Highschool was integrating their school system, and this movie focuses on the struggles and criticism the team faced. Throughout the movie the boys on the football team face numberous racial factors that jeopardize their will and football season. But by the end of camp Coach Boone had shown the team that even if they didn't like each other, they still had to respect each other, and all the members of the team became friends. But once they got back from camp they realized that they were the only ones ok with the integration. Maybe it was forced upon them? or maybe they were just forced together and relized that eventhough their skin colors are different, they are not that much different as people.

This relates to the class material because of the affirmative action of the forced integration. Neither the black parents, or the white parents were happy about their kids going to school with each other, but the law said they had to. In Brodkins piece, the Jews and the whites did not necesarrily want to be living in the same neighborhoods, but once the war was over and Jews were living with the whites, they realized that it wasn't that bad and they weren't that different of people.

Entry 9

The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote, which is a form of affirmative action, where the law requires a group of people be able to do certain things they couldn't before. I chose this because I think its amazing that women didn't get the right to vote until the 1920's and even then they still were denied most of the time until women entered the workforce in masses during WWII.

This relates to course material because I feel this relates to Brodkins story of the Jews being able to move into white neighborhood because they were white. Finally in the 1920's women recieved the right to vote eventhough their male counterparts have been voting since the beginning of America. This fact comes as a surprise to think that white women weren't able to vote but black males (if they met certain stipulations) were able to.