Steve McQueen's Myth of Black Guilt

12 YEARS A SLAVE elicits no imaginative empathy, failing to make cinematic the distinct individuality/personality/imagination of its lead character--only to then expose director Steve McQueen's insidious Oscar-bait racism: that enduring disenfranchisement of Blacks is a consequence of BLACK GUILT for slavery!--an insane Obama-era fallacy then expunged with sentimentality and nihilism. The slavery of death remains.