Good story and concept, but some glaring flaws

Rating: 8/10 (25 November 2019)

I thought the movie was good and memorable, but I can't really get over two major plot holes, namely the second.
1) Derek initially becomes pissed off at the white prison gang for doing business with Hispanics. This tells us that at that time, he was more ideologically stringent than they were. However, he immediately starts talking with the black laundry guy afterwards, even before being raped. So his initial grievance that led to the rape doesn't make sense.
2) When Derek comes back from prison, Danny is fully immersed in white nationalism, hook, line, and sinker. He's enraged when Derek rejects everyone at the party, but suddenly changes his entire worldview from one conversation afterwards? He just says he's sorry that the rape happened to Derek, and that's that? Now he knows that what he's believed for his entire adolescent life is hateful/wrong? Within an hour, he can completely re-examine his ideology and write a regretful paper about it? Huh? He completely skips the stage of questioning. Just goes from one extreme to moderation by hearing that Derek got raped by pseudo-white nationalists and protected by one black guy from other black guys.
Essentially, I think the character development was just a little rushed. Still; good movie.