Posted on 07/27/2017 8:59:02 AM PDT by rktman
Confederate, as outlined in HBO's initial release, “chronicles the events leading to the Third American Civil War. The series takes place in an alternate timeline, where the southern states have successfully seceded from the Union, giving rise to a nation in which slavery remains legal and has evolved into a modern institution."
But constructing an alt-timeline centered around the continuation of slavery for another 150 years requires a certain significant assumption, says writer Steven Barnes, whose 2002 novel Lion’s Blood imagines an alternate history in which Africa is the dominant colonizing civilization and slaves are of European descent.
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...
P.S. Of course alex hailey's "roots" wasn't full of BS either. Right?
NON print version:
There is present-day slavery, but since it’s mainly by Muhammadans it would be dangerous to expose it.
of working Americans supporting the "entitlement" underclass.
So, a film that depicts the Democrats winning the Civil War?
Lack of self-awareness?
Here is a minefield for them, they continue to make fiction designed to incite Black Criminal Violence and then their Mother and Father gets gunned down at the Quickie Mart. HA HA!
Yes the Democrats win the civil war and Hillary is president. It’s a horror movie. I’ve already given it 1 rotten Tomato
With what, an armada of canoes?
LOL! Guess the battle rages on under different headers. Oh well...........
I'm OK on the "first civil war", and the show is the lead up to the "third civil war", but I can't find an explanation of the "second civil war".
I imagine so. If they accurately report the history, the message is not going to work out the way they prefer.
Race is the most boring topic in the world.
It’s all been done. It’s all been said. You cannot say anything new or interesting because anything which deviates from the Official Party Line will be immediately and relentlessly attacked.
Black people are noble and good and dignified.
White people are bad and consumed by greed and hatred.
YAWN
>>giving rise to a nation in which slavery remains legal and has evolved into a modern institution
Like laying off half your staff, cutting the wages of the other half and telling them to double their workload or they’ll be fired too?
Then giving the CEO a huge bonus for cutting costs?
That kind of modern institution?
They should have just used Harry Turtledove’s series...
Sounds like Barnes plagiarized Robert Heinlein's novel "Farnham's Freehold" published in 1964.
"The group finds that it has not been transported to another world, but instead is in the distant future of their own world. A decadent but technologically advanced African culture keeps either uneducated or castrated whites as slaves."
On another note:
“What makes the premise fundamentally problematic is that it threatens to erase the actual history,” activist and artist Bree Newsome who made headlines in 2015 when she was arrested for removing the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse..."
Well isn't that what you morons have been trying to do all along?
That actually did happen over the period from the 8th Century through the 18th Century, as North African Muslims (the Barbary Pirates and others) conducted slave raids all along the northern Mediterranean, with around a million Europeans captured and enslaved
Now, if the Game of Thrones writers wanted to deal with REAL history, they could have a series about African Muslim slave raiders and their white slaves. But that would be too politically incorrect.
After several years of the Grand Cleansing of Things Confederacy-related, it will be difficult to bring some of those things back into the minds of the Liberals and their sycophant Republican politicians they got to do much of the dirty work of cleansing in the southern states.
What if the new series inadvertantly shows the Confederate battle flag? O the horrors. That would even be worse than a chalk likeness of Donald Trump on a university campus sidewalk.
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