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The Media and Racism: American History X

There are certain aspects about certain movies that also bring out the prejudgments and the bias views like American History X. American History X is a movie about the Vineyard’s, a white family who’s police father is murdered by a black man. It becomes then that the oldest son, Derek becomes angry at the world of race, and calls minorities, “ Social parasites”, and enrages on about how we, the White America give them the chance to live their lives in limits only the sky puts and end to. Then the minorities screw it up and kill us physically and as a united nation. “Europe’s ancestors made it for centuries in America before the black man came without a problem,” explains an upset, young angry Derek Vineyard, with younger brother Danny watching. Certainly, there is something wrong with this though, because simply, everyone is a human being, and unfortunately a lot is limited for minorities in America. This movie displays how a man who hates and hates, eventually kills a bl...

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