Not everyone was a KANG or QWEEN, nor did everyone want to be free. Dr. Joy DeGruy talks about Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Traumatic_Slave_Syndrome (and she specifically writes about African Americans, the diaspora has its own issues; looking at folks like Adiche and her stances as well).
If your identity can only be defined by that of your oppressor and is only limited of the dimensions of which they _permit_ you to exist, you're barely free in your mind. It's giving the praxis of "Plantation Theory": https://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9781953307606