Watched an interesting piece of history last night in the form of the 1967 film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." The classic stars Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy as liberal parents who are facing their daughter wanting to marry a black man in the fast-changing '60s.

Directed by Stanley Kramer, the film was nominated for best picture but lost to another race-themed film "In the Heat of the Night." Incredibly, Sidney Poitier appeared in both movies and was nominated for best actor for playing Detective Virgil Tibbs in Heat. Poitier lost to Rod Steiger who played the racist sheriff in that crime drama. Previously, Sidney Poitier had won the best actor Oscar for Lilies of the Field.

What strikes me 55 years after both Heat and Guess were made is the anti-racist messages that were so finely crafted and, I believe, moved audiences not only in America but worldwide. There's no grievance, no patronizing, no despair in these movies. Only powerful storytelling.

In Guess, Spencer Tracy is phenomenal. He was dying during the shoot, and everyone knew it. Tracy passed two weeks after the film wrapped. His monologue at the end crushes bigotry in a way seldom seen.

Sidney Poitier was so enthralled with Spencer Tracy, he couldn't remember his lines and sometimes had to reshoot his dialogue after the acting legend left the set.

The point here is that most Americans are not racist and will respond to pleas for fairness and unity. But this country will never achieve racial harmony through violence or misguided favoritism that seeks to disadvantage others.

The Black Lives Matter movement capitalizes on bitterness. It is divisive and self-defeating.

I hope you watch both Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and In the Heat of the Night during this month of black history. If everybody would - we'd be a better country.

See you this evening for the No Spin News beginning at six eastern.