 The Burning of the Church is a prophetic scene, as later in 2006, Black Cultural Centre in Dartmouth was bombed by six Molotov cocktails; less than two months later the Black Loyalist Heritage Society's office in Birchtown was burned to the ground.While the film used boxing as a metaphor for racial struggle, many critics dismissed the film as merely a boxing movie.The Canadian newspapers failed to mention the significance of Virgo's representation of Halifax, nor did they reference the racial tension of the film in any but the most cursory manner.