In American History X gets the grip of what terror of fascists America. Not the militias or the red necks of the Kul Klux Klan, but the skin heads in suburbia. This is where Derek Vinyard the poster boy for the Aryan nation, comes from. The movie opens with him gunning down a pair of African Americans because they were trying to steal Derek's truck, just as most people would do in any circumstance. The only difference is that Derek was a skin head, marked with Nazi tattoos. His brother Danny saw nothing wrong, coming as he does from a neighborhood full of gangs, and wannabes, while Derek i…
