Um, no, it's still racist . . .

Rating: 5/10 (26 July 2000)

Great production values overall, but this film is still racist.
The previous poster doesn't have all the facts.
In reality, the FBI showed very little interest in this case. They didn't care that two whites were killed. It is a fact that civil rights organizers, both whites and blacks, begged and pleaded with the federal government to step in. From watching this film you'd think that the FBI came in and had to talk people into getting involved! It was the other way around! This film paints the US government as giving a damn when in fact it didn't. It does belittle blacks and it certainly belittles the work of all civil rights activists from that period, both black and white.