 Filmmaker Spike Lee , in an interview with Vibe , said he would not see the film , explaining " All I 'm going to say is that it 's disrespectful to my ancestors . That 's just me .... I 'm not speaking on behalf of anybody else . " Lee later wrote , " American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western . It was a Holocaust . My ancestors are slaves stolen from Africa . I will honor them . " Louis Farrakhan , the leader of the Nation of Islam , interpreted the movie as " preparation for race war . " 
