Fences – Spiteful Meanness, Abuse in Many Forms, Words Hurt

Humans seem to have a propensity for building fences, which I have never really understood. Although many of them are physical structures, there are also the fences that are built in the mind. These are possibly the most dangerous.
Such are the Fences built by African-American father Troy Maxson as played proficiently by Denzel Washington in the film Fences, which proves that nurture will win out over nature, especially when a family is subjected to prolonged daily verbal abuse that is never red