Coach Carter

My movie instincts are pretty good. And so was this movie. My new plan is to take notes as I watch and share those on my blog.

Great soundtrack.

"Why you always acting hard?"

Great men have great wives

The coach chose to coach a team instead of coaching his son, his son chose to leave his school to be coached by his dad.

Coach Carter made the players sign contract. He was teaching them discipline and integrity.

"growing up means making your own choices, and learning to live with the consequences."

The movie depicted a culture of conflict. Growing up in a community were survival means perpetuating the cycle of not being educated.

young people are always in a hurry-as we get older we tend to take our time.

A "team" UNITED is a powerful force to be reckoned with.

Winning is "earned"

The signs the fans held at games were so lame. It was funny.

Wouldn't we choose to be part of something great if we could?

Watching the community try to oust the coach we the viewers must have been shocked by their behaviour. But that easily could have been us at that hearing. Standing on the wrong side, with the wrong information.

The Chains the coach put on the gym doors seemed very symbolic. The ties of the black culture to athletics, to be treated as, to feeling less than, and being free being more about growing the self then doing what youw ant to do.

Check out the Nelson Mandela quote.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our light shine, We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."-Nelson Mandela's Inaugural Address