I don't have a problem with historical pieces about the black people that came before me. I honor them and want their stories to be told. Slavery is a part of our history and I lift that up just as much as I lift up our accomplishments. In fact, our accomplishments are not as meaningful if we don't tell what came before it, the story of our enslaved ancestors, those that were freed, and the obstacles they faced - physically, mentally, and spiritually, to get us here
If I'm being quite honest, I think the people that dislike slave movies or movies that deal with the subject of our time in the South and the traumas that we endured as a direct result of our enslavement deal with self- hate. I've always said this and I'm not convinced otherwise.
We actually should feel ashamed when we watch these movies. Not because our ancestors are enslaved, but because they endured what they endured only for the black community to devolve into pimp culture, hoe culture, gang culture, drug culture, finesse culture, stunt culture, and a culture of mediocrity and low expectations, when our people died to try to keep their families in-tact, died trying to learn to read and write, died trying to exercise their political rights, died trying to build economic autonomy, etc.
We spit on their graves because we're essentially telling them "our people" ain't worth shyt enough to die for.
Self-hate.
