The reason that it had a large focus on race was because it was a movie about racism. Racism actually does happen everyday, and thats what I think the movie was trying to point out. There were characters who were not racist, but definately were affected by it [i.e. ryan philippes character] and character who were directly discriminated against. I think its a pretty good movie, but it was just marketted vaguely so people didnt really know what it was about.