Jordan Frazier

it represents the fear that black people have when so many of us go missing! This is exactly what might be happening to us both metaphorically and physically in the national and international human trafficking and slave trade.The fear that we are going backwards and our freedom is for profit and not for justice of humanity is real! This movie discusses how to overcome that fear, and reminds POC of the resilience that we possess, and the reminder that we deserve everything everyone else has because our ancestors worked for it and we continue to work for it, and continue to have to prove ourselves to deserve it (which is so unnecessary). It's a reminder that who we are and who we were must be our personal guide to continue to build a great legacy for us (generational wealth, knowledge, and strength). For so long the black community has (and continues to) struggle with a right to earn success, and to be successfully recognized for their work, because people who continue to fetish off the idea of profiting from black creativeness; are constantly trying to find loopholes to continue to do so. And naively we constantly let them. We let the people we work for tell our story, so we can earn a paycheck. The people we hire expect more from us when we should expect more from them as the boss of our own companies, and because we don't have an expectation for ourselves in the business world, we allow ourselves to be pushed over and brought out. The people we live next to tell our stories from their perspective of race & money and ignore our character growth. The people who talk down on us get away with it, because we stay silent for their comfortability and our fear The people who we don't speak up for are murdered and take their lives because we failed to build a community with them that supported and loved them. We stopped being a village to make unnecessary people comfortable because we don't want the consequence of losing their support; even when we know they constantly take our kindness for granted and erase our history; while expecting their sympathy for a price. It's time we tell our own narrative and this film does just that. The first 40 minutes of this film is our past (painful and shocking and never with understanding), the next 30minutes is our present (the reminder that fear still lives among us and always will) and the ending is our future (we are a people of great strength. The labor of slaves built America's economy, and was never given the thank you for it and black industries today are still doing so, while others take credit for it and continuously complain and fantasize about what if the confederacy won. As a result,There are many messed up people activating an infectious hate and want revenge when seeing minorities build their own success and do it without sharing their rightfully earned fortune. This hate is being used to enable shady and manipulative things right under our noses. And we are being naive to the shady actions because of the money and the comfort we have been given to distract us from saying it's wrong. this movie was a reminder to remember where we came from and why we fight the good fight, that has yet to end. It is also a reminder to always be careful of who you surround yourselves with and be conscious of your surroundings always, because the hate for POC success is real out here, whether you believe it or not. And if you don't believe it, Kiersey's mixed-race character's story proves that.