The only problem that I had with this movie was that the main white guy seemed to be the "hero" to all the black people in the film. It wasn't a huge surprise to me, this is usually how white people are depicted. White people are almost always the ones who survive to the end of a horror movie, while the blacks are killed first, followed by women.
However, it reminded me of early "free the slaves" propaganda where black people were carried on the backs of whites (White man's burden - see the link). We didn't see the whole movie so I can't make a judgment call on it. Someone told me before I watched it that he hoped I wouldn't take it the wrong way and see it in a negative light because it's supposed to be a positive movie. I guess I can only see the negativity in it.
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/globerem/main/Judge%20cartoon.bmp
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