The Purpose Of Slavery Movies

Doesn't it seem like Slavery movies represent the sentiment of racism more than the sufferers? Each movie serves to remind the world that 'black' people got brutalised, except that's not what these movies do the most.

Their most omnipotent effect is that of perpetuating racial inequality between the pale folk and the brown. I must assert that racism is a topic that can be covered without touching Slavery. Each movie on race-based Slavery is a reiteration of the differences between us that don't really exist unless we make them.

What if we were to just stop making them. The movies, that is. 

With movies (and Hollywood) being so influential, forming our world views and prejudices, imagine the difference that the absence of Slavery would make.

With that change, there would be rampant outcry for representation of Slavery - even though it would exist in other forms of media.

If Slavery was only represented in Print Art, we would just see 'blacks' depicted as slaves half of the time. That would not only be offensive and an inaccurate representation of 'Brown people' but also highly confusing for those who are secluded from society. Also, arsejacks would attempt to re-enact that imagery - and probably be successful .

Maybe removing Slavery from all visual media would best. But then how would we keep the history known?

If Slavery was represented only in text form, most people wouldn't even know about it in 2 generations (30 years) time.. who reads non-fiction books for fun? Way less than a quarter of us.

Even though it already is unhelpful, because of its myopic focus on slavery, Black history month would somehow become more futile than it already is.

Yet still, the stories of Slavery would not disappear entirely. They would persist to exist at a capacity that wouldn't oppose progression towards a raceless world. Unlike now.