and the reason the director, justin malone and i dodesp thes. films, tuckero refute this shorthand narrative that the black experience in america was blacks emancipated, wandered along aimlessly inth favor in the face of severe alog obstacles. and then along cam ce the civiel rights movement and martinacks v luther king. and even though blacks gotvoting voting rights and other rights ,blacks are still mired and do daily battle in a country that is systemically racist. e ma and , of course, it's nonsense.u after slavery, the majority ofld black people , of course, could not read or write withinld a relatively short period of time. anthey could. 1940, and in nineteen fort 8y 87% blaf live below the federally defined level of poverty. twenty years later, that number. had had fallen to 47%, a forty point drop in twenty years. tory the greatest twenty year period of economic expansion for manyks in american history. why reliance on family in many instances, a black kid wasmothea more likely to be born to a mother and father married to a each other than a white kid