James Baldwin vs. Remember the Titans

In “Notes of a Native Son” James Baldwin’s father passes away. However, instead of grieving over this loss, Baldwin seems to have a feeling of relief that he is gone. His father had hatred towards white people that Baldwin never understood. He felt hatred towards his father because of this, and held on to this hate until his father died. Throughout this narrative, Baldwin begins to feel what his father had always felt. After moving to New Jersey, he was treated differently than he was back at his home in New York. He was told “We don’t serve Negroes here” (58) in every restaurant that he went to, and was looked at differently everywhere he w

Once arriving back at the school, they find that everything except their football team is still segregated. The team is criticized for not hating each other like everyone else. At one point some of the teammates, both black and white, try to go into a restaurant and none of them are let in because blacks were not allowed. However, the team continues to win football games and it shows the town that there’s no need for segregation. After one of the white players is injured in a car accident, his black teammate comes to visit. The nurse told him that only family could come into the room and he says “Are you blind? Don’t you see the family resemblance? That’s my brother” (RTT, Gary). The team friendships help to bring the town together so that segregation can try to be eliminated.

After a black soldier had been shot, “Harlem exploded” (Baldwin 66). The hatred among the people grew worse, and Baldwin was feeling this. After he wanted to murder a waitress for not allowing him to eat in a restaurant, he began to fear the way he was acting. He realized that maybe hatred isn’t a way to solve his problems. “My real life was in danger, and not from anything other people might do but from the hatred I carried in my own heart” (Baldwin 59). Baldwin started to regret not talking to his father about why he always seemed so angry. “Now that my father was irrecoverable, I wished that he had been there for me so that I could have searched his face for the answers which only the future would give me now” (Baldwin 68). Once Baldwin understands what it’s like to hate, he wishes he could talk to his father about this since he remembers his fath

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