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To what extent is the stereotypical representation of black people challenged with particular reference to Coach Carter (2005)

The media has always had a genuine view on black people, some may see positive factors, whereas others see the opposite. Similarly, Coach Carter focuses on a true story in 1999 where a basketball coach benched his first team due to poor academic results. This controversial decision attracted a lot of negative attention from the media, and, the working class society of Richmond, California. The societies reputation itself was not very surprising; the high school dropout rate was 50 percent, and residents were more likely to go to prison than college. Therefore teenagers, in particular black teenagers, were looked down upon and were expected to fail in school and end up in prison. As a result, the contemporary society was overcome by a moral panic of the status of the future of their children.