March 2, 2000 at 12:00 am #31501
John K.
Participant
Of course race relations are not ‘all right.’ If they were, we would not even be having this discussion.
On another point, I cannot give ‘The Hurricane’ much praise when it has been proven to be a completely inaccurate portrayal of events. There never was a racist detective plotting for decades to destroy Carter, and Carter was hardly the saint the movie portrays him as. Even the creators of the film admit to this, and yet put it out as a ‘true story.’
In my opinion, this is just as damaging to race relations as anything else, because it creates an unhealthy atmosphere of dishonesty regarding the incident.