Anyone with any sense of what's happening in our country knows there's a racial divide that hasn't changed a whole lot since the 60's and 70's, although I'm no expert in racial tension in the states of MS and AL, they are in a league of their own, and being from NY, I will never understand what went through their minds back then, and their absolute hatred for anyone who wasn't pasty white (I'm an olive skinned Italian and I would have been scared to live down there back then). But, even then, and even in some spots in the south, people were able to find common ground, and somehow, with a lot of blood, sweat, and tears, progress was made. Somewhere between back then and now it stopped. The Best of Enemies showed us that even the hatred of the local KKK boss, and his arch enemy, the always on the defensive, leader of the African American Activists Org (both strong willed, tough, and believer of their causes) were able to meet somewhere in the middle when one just gives in just a little, and before you know it, KKK membership card is being torn up, finally realizing maybe his cause wasn't what he believed in after all. I'm absolutely making this sound like a much simpler story than it actually is. I'm sure in real life, this must have been extremely hard on both. Her trying to understand why he hates, him trying to understand where he actually belongs. My point is, back then folks worked on understanding each other when the time called for it, nowadays, it just seems like there's just way to much hate, and no attempt to try and understand the other guy (or woman). It's just go home and get me my gun, or my gang, and start blasting away. Personally, I've always believed that African Americans have just as much right to be here as any white person. When you force another race to leave their homeland in chains, and come here, they were unintentionally given that right back then. And that doesn't just go away. I would never pretend that I could know how black people feel in this country, but I do know that we need a dialogue between whites and blacks that just can't stop until we learn to live together. And look at each other as equals. And look at each other without seeing a color. If that never happens, this country will always be at war with itself, and we all lose.