All too real, addresses hate across ethnic groups.

Rating: Null/10 (6 April 2008)

Edward Norton is skinhead Derek Vinyard, with a very large Swatsticka tattoo on his left pecs. Somehow he has become very jaded, unhappy, and against any ethnic group but his own. Part of it resulted from his firefighter dad's death at the hands of a black man, while dad was fighting a fire. Now Derek worships everything Hitler stood for, white supremacy. Not just against blacks, but also against Jews, Hispanics, and Asians.
One night late, while Derek and his girlfriend Stacey (Fairuza Balk) are consummating their affair one more time, Edward Furlong as younger brother Danny Vinyard alerts Derek that some black dudes are breaking into his vehicle. He goes out and chases them away, killing two of them. He has only underwear and a big grin on his face as the cops arrive to arrest him.
While Derek is serving his prison time, younger brother Danny is beginning to follow in his footsteps. Stacy Keach as Cameron Alexander is the older man who fills all of them with propaganda.
While in prison Derek learns and mainly by association with a black inmate in the laundry job begins to question many of his supremacy beliefs. As he gets out, he has resolved that all of his former beliefs are bullspit, and resolves to make sure that he protects his family, and guide Danny away from Cameron.
Avery Brooks is teacher Dr. Bob Sweeney, a black man who helps to set a good example. But we see in a family flashback that dad had much earlier instilled the prejudice that Derek and Danny now fought to overcome.
Hard to watch movie, but very good.
SPOILERS: Derek returned to announce to Cameron and everyone else that he wanted no part of his former association with them. But shortly in an incident at school, his brother was shot, assassination style, in the boy's bathroom.