[deleted]

Why must it propagandize a message?

Also, the original ending of the film had Derek return to Nazism after his brother was murdered. The studio changed it so that Derek renounced white supremacism at the end. That's an anti-racist message doctored in by the studios.

It was ostensibly anti-racist. It was very poorly done.

And to be fair, whilst many of the Black characters are 'thugs', the most admirable character is the Black professor and mentor of the main character, and the most loathesome characters are the hateful and frankly stupid neo-Nazis, especially the fat moron who constantly hangs around Derek.

In some ways, the fact that most of the Black characters were apathy-inducing ciphers with no real personality beyond 'criminal' is almost a saving grace, because by contrast the majority of white characters are hideous and cartoonish grotesques that evoke a visceral hatred.

Like I say, I think the film was ostensibly 'anti-racist', but it was a poorly made film that made Derek this weird mix of both hopefully naive and impressionable, and almost super-human in his intelligence, wisdom and athletic prowess, and the scenes of the white racists attacking Asian shopkeepers were filmed in an offensively comic and stylised way, which played down the matter-of-fact impact of the bigotry on display.

I have little doubt that the filmmakers intended to make a righteous, honourable, anti-racist film, but they ended up making a bizarre misanthropic cartoon that belittled all of its characters, regardless of race.