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At a recent Los Angeles screening of the film that included a Q&A, music-artist Common asked McQueen what his film’s message was for today’s inner-city youth, some of whom might be ashamed of their heritage. “What I would like this film to do is almost to embrace that past, to make it yours, to own it, to tame it, to master it,” said McQueen, a Brit whose ancestors were slaves. “We have to understand it to go forward.”
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