One thing that stood out to me in this movies was that every black person that was shown working except Virgil work as a servants with no authority. The black people of Sparta are used as an means to an end and for the benefit of the white citizen this includes the mechanic that Virgil stays with, to the butler that works Endicott and Mama at the abortion clinic. The city of Sparta was depicted as a town that will not budge against their social norms in terms of race. This is important because this movies was made post-Civil Rights. This was interesting to me because racial issues acts as good compare and contrast between the officers and Virgil.The officers inability to move past their racial issues make them to be reckless in their investigation and wrong conclusions and also makes Virgil act recklessly and put himself in danger just to prove himself and solve the murder. I felt genuinely irritated when scenes of Gillespie dismissing Virgil’s work and opinions on the case despite the fact he had a white officer vouching for Virgil and his abilities on homicides. The fact that his way of getting Virgil to stick around after he had him locked up was play on Virgil’s black pride was both very interesting and annoying seeing how his efforts on the the case was not as helpful.