These movies want to say that this is your story and that's all you'll ever be. For example, films like 12 Years a Slave (2013), The Help (2011) and The Butler (2013). My position here is that in every movie there is the essence of what race should be, whether in the help or the butler blacks were the maids, and the butlers, why? In 12 years a slave was a free black man during the mid-1800s, but was sent back to slavery for 12 years due to mistaken identity; thrown back into the fire after his burns were healed. The films have been consistent in reminding the black minority that there is now a way out. Why not focus on positive black history? Throughout American history there have been many innovative African Americans who have shaped the country for the better, such as Garret Morgan who reinvented the patented traffic lights we abide by today. Many people don't know about these investors because they haven't had widespread media recognition.