Gee, a white guy from MA is the director. Apparently he woke in 2016
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/a-co...eghini-on-his_b_59d2e0a2e4b03905538d17e1"It actually began as a bio-pic on the life of Crispus Attucks, the runaway slave whose death by the Red Coats in the streets of Boston ignited The Boston Massacre. But Rage decided to change it up after the 2016 presidential election. “The trigger point was when I noticed some of my white friends from high school, people I haven’t spoken with in thirty years, posting the most hateful and disturbing memes about Black people and Muslims,” he said.
Rage decided it was up to him to educate his friends about some of the atrocities black people have suffered at the hands of white America. “They need to see and experience the painful, heartbreaking, bloody struggle that the black community has endured through the generations.”