Documentary: Great American Race Game

In “Great American Race Game,” British film director Martin Durkin plunges into the shark-infested waters of American race politics and explores its long and obfuscated history. There is still racial bigotry in America, as there is elsewhere in the world. It is a terrible thing, and should be exposed and condemned.      But there are political forces in America who have gone—in little over a century—from the party of overt and active racism, to the party pandering to racial issues (while exacerbating them), to a party that has created an image of itself as the only righteous defenders…