If they wanted to make a movie about racial conflict and uprising in Detroit, they would have made one about the disastrous 1967 riots that blighted the city's reputation for many years (as with the more recent film "Detroit"). But they clearly weren't interested in going too deep.
Fact: Orville Hampton received an Oscar nomination for the script of "One Potato, Two Potato", another film dealing with American race relations.
There is a passing mention of "the riots" in the film, but as mentioned, the issue doesn't seem to be much more than something to give urgency to the plot.
If they wanted to make a movie about racial conflict and uprising in Detroit, they would have made one about the disastrous 1967 riots that blighted the city's reputation for many years (as with the more recent film "Detroit"). But they clearly weren't interested in going too deep.
Fact: Orville Hampton received an Oscar nomination for the script of "One Potato, Two Potato", another film dealing with American race relations.
There is a passing mention of "the riots" in the film, but as mentioned, the issue doesn't seem to be much more than something to give urgency to the plot.