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Writer Says 12 Years a Slave Used Up the White Guilt Mandela Needed

Jordan Sargent · 06/02/14 03:18PM

Do you remember the film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom? You probably don't, even though it came out last year and starred Idris Elba. It was not well-liked by critics and did not even recover its budget at the box office, and William Nicholson–who wrote the screenplay—thinks he knows why: because 12 Years a Slave "sucked up all the guilt about black people."