I have never read the book or seen the film (and my children won’t either); we live next to Newark NJ, and understand the present in stark terms that make the past a far-off fairy-tale. I wasn’t even born when this was made; I feel no “white guilt”. Instead, I live in a town where a lot of current residents fled Newark decades ago because of what was unleashed there; we have no misconceptions about it.
All my sisters homeschool, they don’t show their children this kind of stuff either, made during the beiginning of Hollywood’s self-righteous smug era of “message” pictures, espeically those instilling “white guilt”. My sisters and their husbands say they refuse to raise their families to feel guilt for things they weren’t even alive for. No other nation is forced to accept “collective guilt” in this way, the sad thing is, being the altruistic people we are, we’re also the ones who fixed the problems, even at the risk of life! That doesn’t get harped on. But anyway, there will be one family at
least who’s not been indoctrinated into internalising “white guilt”.