I haven't had a chance to watch this. But I don't think it's mentally any different for "current" African Americans than any other black person(original Africans included). Sure, they are descendants of slaves, but that does not really matter any more than say being a descendant of Hitler. Historically, overall conditions in the Congo(to pick one example) were much much worse for blacks than what the slaves went through(and this is not an attempt to belittle the slave experience).