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Posted on 12/31/2004 2:21:30 PM PST by Caipirabob
It'll be a hack job. Hollywood is not going to be able to say anything nice about the south. Especially after the election.
Southern Mississippi Ping (not USM)
They made such a big deal after the election on how the "red States" map looked like the "Slave States" map before the civil war. I suspect it won't be pretty at all.
As a historian, I find counterfactuals (alternate histories) fun to play with but the danger is maintaining any sort of REAL objectivity is impossible.
I suspect this will be an opportunity for the left to rant about how evil the south (and thus red-staters) are.
Slavery was not the primary reason that the vast majority of people fought for the Confederacy. Very few people even owned slaves, perhaps 5% or less. Back 140 years ago people were MUCH more dedicated to their state and region than now. The heavily populated and insudtrialized northern states were doing MANY different things that were intended to enrich the northern states at the expense of the southern ones, such as putting high tarrifs on imported machinery so that Southern states would be forced to buy inferior northern machinery.
The issue is much as it is today with liberals; they continually try to spin every issue to make it something that it is not. BTW, if slavery was the issue, why did Lincoln wait two years to sign the Emancipation Proclamation (which did not free a single slave)?
"I suspect this will be an opportunity for the left to rant about how evil the south (and thus red-staters) are"
Exactly. I question the director's motives in making such a flick...is he/she liberal/leftist/race baiter?.
That's a refreshing idea on this subject. Too often people forget that what we currently accept as being obvious, in an ethical sense, only became the standard response after much thought, blood, and change. I loathe Hollywood's incessant anti-South position, but I equally loathe some of the sentiments of some southerners on this issue, too. People today have the benefit of hindsight, but also of not having their entire lives ripped up--something Hollywoodies should think about re: Southern society and individual lives and property, and Southerners should think about the slaves whose lives we all know about.
Also, we can't ignore the fact that MANY NORTHERNERS CONTINUED TO PRACTICE SLAVERY. It's not as if they're necessarily on the moral upside, they just happened to be losing and needed the manpower along with a perceived moral arguement to continue to wage war.
No one bothered to free the slaves before the war. It was all talk.
Churchill wrote such an account, I wonder if they'll borrow from him. As I recall, it all ended up pretty much the same anyways, after all was said and done.
That's what I like... a man that knows his history.
Executive Producer: Spike Lee
aka Shelton J. Lee
March 20, 1957
ATLANTA GA
Full blown hatred of white people packaged as introspection.
Harry Turtledove has a whole set of novels with this premise.
Lee hasn't really done that sort of thing for a while. His last film, 25th Hour was awesome. And executive producers have no say in what a film is like. By the way, this film, which was made by a small indie outside of the Hollywood system, is apparently a comedy/satire.
"It's an "alternate universe" take on what would the country be like had the South won the civil war."
Given the feelings blue-staters have for
red-staters, not to mention Southerners,
you just KNOW it won't be pretty.
Guess I'll be looking out for Shrek 3...
What's wrong about this photo? Or if you're a true-born Southerner, what's right?
I love The South as much as the next guy, but this picture is a slap to the US Marines. The original is of the United States Marines, not the Confederate States Marines.
BTW, if slavery was the issue, why did Lincoln wait two years to sign the Emancipation Proclamation (which did not free a single slave)?
Hell, the Emancipation Proclamation only freed slave in the Confederacy! Maryland was a slave state and in the Union yet they retained their slaves.
Yea, I knew it was propaganda. The Emancipation Proclamation only "freed" slaves in the south while ignoring the slavery that existed in Maryland.
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