Search - Divided We Stand (1988) on DVD

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Blackworm | 03/21/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Troy and Dawn are maintaining their positions as students, lovers, and political figures in the Black Collation that operates on the campus of Empire University. Kalib, the president, is charasmatic and knowledgeable, and wants the black student to become more than the status quo. Enter Jennice, who becomes very interested in the movement and want to learn more about, yet is disturbed by some because of her very light skin and the fact that she is as friendly with the white students. The collation is targeted by some as being too militant, due to their involvement in the firing of a white professor. Everybody has an opinion as to what the group should stand for, but it all becomes moot, when one morning, Jennice appears before Tony and Dawn, confessing that the night before, she was sexually attacked by Kalib. In between Tony wanting to keep it quiet while he got to Kalib and Dawn wanting to go straight to the police, a racial slur from a white student to a collation member sparks a small war between renegade members of the group and the student and his friends. Here is a movie that shines on how far some people will go when too much power and trust is placed in the wrong hands."