It's very loosely based on a novel by Thomas Pynchon, Vineland. Which is basically about revolutionary hippies in the 1960s who do a bunch of wild shyt before the feds resume hunting them in the 1980s. The director has said he ultimately did his own thing instead of directly adapting it, but just based off the trailers there are similarities (the daughter, karate, etc). Those characters are white in the novel. So this isn't some statement on black revolution as much as it's a modern take on an aged revolutionary and his daughter being hunted for shyt he did in the past. Looks like they simply removed the hippies, rock n roll, and drug sales from the novel and replaced it with black power stuff.
