Little Hawk, I don't suppose that you'll be surprised to know that I take great issue with the statements made in the movie review of "In The Heat Of The Night" . Imo, the statements you quoted are flawed partly because they don't appear to take into consideration institutional racism. Secondly, the statements appear to lump all people of African American descent into one homogeneous thinking & acting group called "The blacks".

I can attest to the fact that I and Black Americans who I know don't "want to feel persecuted". I and other African Americans who I know don't "play the victims game". Yes, I'm sure that does occur among some Black people sometimes. But, to broad brush this attitude as one that all-or even most-Black Americans- have is {as I've said before} much too simplistic.

That said, I've no interest in turning the focus of this discussion from the UK to a discussion of the state of White/non-White race relations and the institutionalized inequities that are still very much in operation in the USA {in the mass media, and in the public education system, juvenile justice system, child welfare system, public welfare system, criminal justice system, health care system, housing system, employment systems, such as electrician, plumbing and other such union jobs, etc etc etc}.

And since I have no desire to post another comment about racism in the USA, and since I choose not to make any other comment about what some one who is Black, White, or Green thinks that 20 million plus Black people think, and since I don't know anything about immigrants and race/ethnic relations in the UK, I'll go back to my role as a lurker on this thread.