I don't think race plays a part anyone more its culture. Black people who act like the average middle class american kid, fits in 100% with white kids on my campus. Its not even fitting in, they are a part of our culture. Now the black kids who dress like thugs, they hang together. Is it race that keeps them from white people, maybe, but its more likely their culture. If you can't speak english, dress like you a thug, and act like a jackass, only other people like you are going to hang around you.
I thought Crash was really good actually, I thought it was going to be political correct crap, but it was a great story. Hard to pick best pic of the year because most movies where terrible this year. The only movies I enjoyed weere Batman Begins, Sin City, Serenity, and the new star wars to a lesser extent.
Call it "profiling" if you wish but I play the odds and when 14% of the people commit 42% of the crimes why take the risk?
It portrays Los Angeles not as the liberals' fantasy "melting pot," but as an ocean of isolated and disconnected people, "lonely and fearful in the crowd," surrounded by other races they despise as monolothic groups.
In the end, the story is written in such a way to bring the characters toward personal redemption in such a way that they are seen as having decency beneath a pervasive, racist surface.
It turned out to be a better and deeper story than I thought it might be.