A New Thing Has Been Made

My kids love the movie Remember the Titans. It’s the story of the integration of the TC WIlliams High School Football Team in Alexandria, Virginia, in the 1960s Civil Rights era. The white players and the African American players each had a fundamentally faulty understanding of their own identity and what Coach Herman Boone was attempting to teach them in bringing their programs together. The white players believed that because of their privilege and heritage that theirs was the superior identity–thus deserving of special consideration. The black players knew that the chips were…