Communication: Ethics and Conflict in Remember the Titans

Breaking down the barriers of communication can often prove to be a difficult task especially if the obstacles are rooted in personal biases or biases rooted in social constructs. In Remember the Titans (2000), coach Herman Boone is tasked with teaching T.C. Williams High School's football staff and players how to overcome their biases in order to become a successful football team that operates as a single unit. Two concepts of communication, ethics and conflict management/resolution, are intrinsically intertwined.

Remember the Titans (2000) is set in the racially charged Virginia of the 1970s at the recently desegregated T.C. Williams High School. Coach Herman Boone, played by Denzel Washington, has recently been appointed as head football coach at the school much to the dismay of the school's former head football coach and staff, all of who happen to be white. Likewise, conflict emerges...
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