http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2424697/12-Years-A-Slave-new-film-brutally-portrays-slavery-threatens-reignite-racial-tensions.html
Not to mention the 'shoot first and ask questions later' of the caged gerbil shooters. The profiling, the stop and frisk, and all this other garbage. So many never having been given a chance, just 'cause their tan's too deep. Government policies don't help any, either. That's all over the web.
The flick is gonna be a hard one to watch. I've had enough reading this synopsis. And it's not over. It never has been. If it had, we wouldn't have any issues today.