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American History X Rhetoric
Racism has a strong history in this country and even though it ended nearly 150 years ago, it still exists today. American History X is a movie surrounded around the hate crime caused by the division between the white supremacists and other minorities. Blacks and whites refused to even play basketball with one another and rejected each other because of the skin color. But no one is born with such hate, it is learned. There are many ways one can learn, but the movie focuses on two ways, rhetoric and Socratic dialect. Derek Vineyard, a former skinhead, becomes a victim of these forms of teaching. Derek Vineyard is introduced as a vicious murderer who possesses pride in his hatred towards minorities. He is sent to jail for killing three African
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