The events of the film are much more important to the African - American community, and to America as a country trying to overcome
its great racial divide, but somehow Washington manages to make the film much more about the significance of the individual characters first.
Outwardly, the two men are on different sides of
a great racial divide that stems not only from personal animus (though there is plenty of that to go around), but also from an entrenched system of social, psychological and economic oppression.
Not exact matches
Historically, the
greatest divide in American society has been the
racial divide.
Most of the reports about the digital
divide center around
racial and socio - economic differences (a 2010 study confirmed that household income is the
greatest predictor of Internet use).