The Great Debators Comparison

In The Great Debaters a group of African American young adults compete against other teams in debate competitions. The movie centers around their lives in a time period (1930) where racism was at its peak and it showed how they rebel against prejudice in there own way.Though the movie had many great characters with inspiring  and heartbreaking stories Henry Lowe, one of the debaters, had a problem some youths in Orange,NJ can emphasize with. Henry was an young alcoholic. Like many drug users Henry's drinking habit stemmed from not being able to control everything that was happening around him, he craved control. He got his fix from bars and parties that provided him with no consideration to what they were doing to this young man. Teen drug dealers are enabling drug users like the people that gave Henry drinks did.  Teen drug dealers may also doing  it as a means of controlling there situation and perhaps others around them. Drug dealing can become its own addiction.