:08:00
Have a seat.
:08:07
How are you doing?
:08:11
Fine.
:08:14
Things at home OK?
:08:20
Derek got out this morning,
did he not?
:08:25
Yeah, he did.
:08:27
He was one of my students.
You knew that, right?
:08:30
Honors English.
:08:31
He was a brilliant student
like you...
:08:35
but he hung out with fools,
also like you.
:08:41
Did you bring me in here
to talk about Derek?
:08:43
What happened to him
has nothing to do with me.
:08:45
Everything you do right now
has something to do with Derek.
:08:49
I followed directions.
I wrote an "A" Paper.
:08:51
"Mein Kampf"?
:08:55
I should expel you.
:08:57
Go ahead. You don't
think I could handle it?
:08:59
No. I think the street
would kill you.
:09:01
Your rhetoric
and your propaganda...
:09:03
aren't going to save you
out there.
:09:07
So here's the drill.
:09:09
I'm your history teacher
from now on.
:09:11
We will discuss current events.
:09:15
We will call this class...
:09:18
American History X.
:09:21
We meet once a day.
:09:24
All right.
Your first assignment...
:09:26
is to prepare for me
a new paper due tomorrow.
:09:29
Come on, Sweeney. It took me
a week to read "Mein Kampf."
:09:42
What do you want me to do it on?
:09:44
Your brother.
:09:46
Oh, God, man.
Please tell me you're joking.
:09:48
No. I'm not kidding.
:09:50
I want you to analyze
and interpret all the events...
:09:54
surrounding
Derek's incarceration.
:09:55
How these events helped shape
your present perspective...
:09:59
concerning life
in contemporary America.