Clint Eastwood was just delightful in his relationship with the Hmong family next door, and it was poignant that he got along better with them than with his own sons.
Really a very “deep” movie. Reviewers portrayed him as a racist who sees the light but I don’t think there was any racism there even toward the Hmong. His animosity toward the Hmong was really more about shame and pain over his past.
The other “racism” was simply the way many friends speak to friends or simple terms that were once used pretty commonly.