Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.
The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.
If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.