the generation of black folks raised in the 1920s who worked in subservience (even though they weren't docile about it) to white folks, and their children who came of age during the Civil Rights Movement who saw their parents as Uncle Toms.

It does this, however, by boiling it all down to the conflict between a White House butler and his Black Panther son, the latter of whom just happens to be present for literally every major civil rights event from 1960 forward. Comes off very contrived rather than profound as a result, though - since it's Lee Daniels - the violence of racism is shown in florid, almost lavish detail that most similar films shy away from.