There's a scene in American Gods where Mr. Nancy (Anansi) appears in the hold of a slave ship and tells the people there: When you get to America, you will be Black. No, you're not Black right now—you're just people like anyone else. But when you get there, you will be Black, and you will suffer. He urges them to mutiny while they still can. Then he gives a loud theatrical laugh as he turns into a spider and vanishes.

Sometimes, it takes a fiction writer to tell the Truth.