Why do you need to make a movie about race, where every single character is a near-textbook stereotype...

Rating: 4/10 (18 June 2006)

What kind of "..intelligent, if melancholy, exploration of race and class warfare." (Puig, USA Today) abuses stereotypical character types that this Oprah-acclaimed civil rights wonder hopes to erase?
I mean, why do you need to make a movie about race, where every single character is a near-textbook example of typical, contemporary stereotypes of the race/creed/nationality that they come from? The white cop is racist, the black guys are felons, the rich white lady is a total bitch, the old white man is a xenophobe, and the freaking' middle easterner owns a convenience store! This strange, "We are championing fairness and equality, using predictable and utterly embarrassing plot and character personalities, while mashing all these random people in a barely plausible explanation on how they all relate to one another as a so-called thoughtful and dramatic film" is really a sad, unrealistic failure.
A film needn't explore every single facet of racial tension and modern culture by setting up a plot where every single character meets every other one, and thus makes a needless political point about every last "black guy meets white guy", "Mexican guy meets white lady", and "middle-easterner meets old white man" scenario et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, ad nauseum.
People, watch a realistic film that speaks volumes about the danger of modern racial violence, called 'American History X.' In it, roughly two racial factions clash in the same Southern California setting and gets the same point across, much more viscerally, with about twelve less main characters.
Please Hollywood, you do not need to make points about racism by bombarding us with twenty or so Asian, Black, Caucasian, Mexican, Latino, Middle easterner, and any other possible race that is shoved into this film that flops around like a big, smelly fish.