American History X: Synopsis

AMERICAN HISTORY X
This movie deals with racism on both sides and is very raw. In the ordinary world you have a white, middle-class suburban family with a nice house three kids and blue-collar parents. But the beliefs that get passed to from father-to- son, brother-to-brother are not all that nice. At the dinner table the father is telling Derek, the oldest brother, about how two less-qualified black men got the job over two qualified white men because of affirmative action. Everyone at the table was not comfortable in hearing their father spew out racist remarks, it didn't seem right. …