True people depicted in the late 1980,s it’s title is a metaphor of poor whites in the hood and the gang his family his comfort his sense of belonging to something that has no color to him , his rise and fall are consistent with a kid with no plan B . His tx throughout is as a dumb cracker wanting to be black but he only sees despair . Illegal activity with CIA is shameful in recruit a slow child. Contras in motorcity