Coach Carter

After Coach Carter takes the job as coach of Richmond Oilers basketball at his old school Richmond High School, after having been in the same team and be the team record holder. Taking over from Coach White, Carter learns that team members are rude and disrespectful in the locker area. “The team is so bad, angry and undisciplined” says Ken Carter to his wife. This scene represents the values and ethics of the Carter’s personality. Afterwards movie turns this scene; Coach Carter comes into Richmond High School to take over as the coach of their basketball team. The basketball players have to sign a contract for each of them. The contracts are clear and in writing that the players would understand. The players signed the contracts that stated "they will attend all classes, sit in the front row in all of their classes, they must maintain a certain grade point average and on game day they are required to wear ties. The dialogue went like this:

“”What is your name sir?” states Coach Carter

“Jason Lyle, but I ain’t sir” states one of the players

“You are not a sir, well are you a madam?” As for now you are a sir so are the rest of you.

“Sir is a term of respect. And you will have my respect until you abuse it”.

“You get to become a winner. Because if there’s one thing I know it is this: The losing stops now”.

Starting today, you will play like winners, and most importantly you will be winners”

If you listen and learn, you’ll win basketball games.

“And gentlemen winning in here… is the key to winning out there”.

“We treat ourselves with respect”.

“We don’t use the word “nigga”.

There are deep moral issues in the film. The sexual and violent content is not condoned in the movie. One teammate and his girlfriend talk about the responsibility of their actions as soon as she admits she’s pregnant, unfortunately she ends up aborting her child. Cruz witnesses the murder of his cousin and immediately wants out of gang life. After leaving twice he arrives on Coach Carter’s doorstep in the middle of the night in tears from watching his cousin get shot, begging to be let back into the team. Carter immediately welcomes him with open arms. When Cruz chose a lifestyle of crime and realized that wasn’t what he wanted, he chose to suck up his pride and come back to his team and his coach. Also in the beginning of the movie Cruz chose to leave the team but then returned. Coach Carter insisted that he do several hundred exercises in order to get back onto the team by Friday. Cruz fails but his teammates offer to do the rest for him.

In one of the scenes in “Coach Carter” Carter hears one of his players refer to another as a “nigga”. Carter did not like what he heard and immediately gave his player an ear-full about why he should not be saying such words. Many people in our current society

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