I watched American History X today and in contrast to my last blog entry, it was brilliant and tragic. If you haven't seen it yet, I recommend. It explores the racist struggle that the world is faced with in modern times, and the strength it takes for someone to change themselves to become a strong and respectable person.
Sometimes it is easier for us to place judgement on others rather than getting to know who they are. Understanding is what this world is seriously lacking. The narrator of the film quotes Abe Lincoln at the end of the film and it's really stuck to me...Watch it, enjoy it, and you could possibly learn something from it :)
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." - Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address 1861
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