Is "Remember the Titans!" The biggest message to me from the film, which chronicles the integration of a public high school and football team, is that their is no color in "TEAM!"
Football is the most integrated male sport at Ethel High School and for those that don't know the make up of our school it is 60 percent white, 40 black. I tell you all this because I see a group on young men on Saturday night after Dees Antique Auction. They were laughing and talking about things they've done together and well, the things that teenagers talk about it.
Two of them are white and three of them are black. I am sure without football they would still be friends they would be but football binds them together.
I bring all this up for the simple fact as this -- I sit in the Attala County School Board meetings every month and listen to the same thing over and over -- The white people of Ethel this and the white people of Ethel that. We are the PEOPLE of ETHEL PERIOD! The white or black, we all, care about the school.
It is disheartening that in 2011, race is still so much of an issue especially over at McAdams, when compared to our school.
Now that I'm off my soap box! Let's get ready for some Friday night high school football action. Hopefully, I will get to go with my mycoplasma and all. Paul's better today but I went back to the doctor today and got my meds upped and a shot!
Good LUCK, TIGERS!
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