A Brief Perspective of Doris and Professor Sweeney from the Movie "American History X"

This is a movie about a mother, Doris, who has four children. The movie is based around her two son's Derrick and Danny. Derrick is the oldest, an "A" student, who thrives for knowledge. Danny, her younger son, worships the ground his older brother walks on. Life is turned upside down at the kitchen table one breakfast morning when her husband questions the fact that Derrick has to read a book by a black author, and more importantly that a black man (his teacher) wants him to read and report on it. Dad tells Derrick that he should," Ace the test, but don't swallow the garbage that is fed to him" he goes on to say how blacks and whites will never be equal because they are not equal. …