re: The Free State of Jones?

I saw this movie yesterday and found it pretty enthralling and well acted. To call it "white guilt" is bullshite. Lets face it the period covering the Civil War and Reconstitution is an ugly racial time period. Any film done realistically at all covering this material will have "bad guy" whites. Fact is their were many ugly racist at the time. The movie though portrays many white characters who were not racist in any way. The story is of course Hollywooded up some but the Kingdom of Jones did exist. They did say that they never seceded from Confederacy because they had never left the Union. They did declare there own "Constitution". The Reconstruction era black codes and Mississippi Plan did exist. The movie is not for everyone but the reviews for it are really off.