Carter (Jackson) Overcame Low Expectations in Well Delivered US Urban Story

Rating: 10/10 (29 January 2005)

This wonderfully told story and the characters in it literally reflect America--its diverse mosaic of ethnic/racial/socioeconomic groups and their corresponding and sometimes disappointing expressed and implied expectations.
Coach Carter came from Richmond, California, a once predominantly white town now overwhelmingly populated by blacks and Latinos. All hope or expectation at Richmond High of graduating citizens one by one that could contribute to their communities seemed to have left with the white flight, but Coach Carter was willing to challenge that implied assumption.
Carter was a solid civic pillar of the community long before taking over as head coach of Richmond High. He quietly ran his successful business and chose to raise his family in the community. When he took those young men to victory on the basketball court it eventually became apparent to him other problems would derail their success at life. He realized he had no control over a lot of what went on, but he took a stand on the things he could and greatness was the result. If you haven't seen the movie, go. The way Samuel Jackson and the movie full of future stars delivered, will leave you barreling over with laughter one moment and your vision blurred with tears the next.
Bravo Coach Carter.