The North’s primary motivation was to maintain the Union and secure the other half of its economic foundation, not end slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation was done out of convenience and for the sake of winning the war, not out of moral obligation. The Civil War was indeed started by the South to defend slavery,…

I know a bad concept when I hear one, and I know a good concept when I hear one. I am capable of analyzing concepts, and coming to a conclusion. It’s really not that hard. I don’t have any faith in those making Confederate based on their previous work (including the Black ones that white people keep trotting out), to…

Except it wasn’t. The fact of the matter is that whether it was right after the War, during Reconstruction, or even the present, America has never had a proper reflection of slavery’s repugnance and that is proven with how many Confederate flags you see raised all over the country and how much violence still occurs…

I’m also saying this as a guy whiter than a snowman covered in sugar. As well as a history major who has had to study stuff like this in order to grasp just how much America has had to be dragged into modernity kicking and screaming

No kidding, this is a straight up donkey kick right to HBO’s balls. These are the kinds of scenarios that are really cool, because it shows something we haven’t seen before. America has never really had a moral reckoning with slavery like Europe had with the Holocaust. After WWII people were tried for crimes against…

Now THIS is what I’m talking about. This is how you do an alternate history. I can’t WAIT to see this.

I’m pretty sure that the mere mention of reparations will send 20k white people into cardiac arrest.

Except that science, math and medicine come from Eastern Civilization and not Western. Europeans we naked covered in blue paint while science and math were being developed in the East.

That’s not to say that the world was a utopia, but yes the vast majority of the world was better off before Europe and the US fucked them over. Native North Americans, South Americans, Africans, Australians, etc. All were far better off before colonialism...

“Ugh! Why do people have so many demands and criticisms?! Why can we just have a tv show that displays in graphic detail the horrors and pain of a marganalized population that is still suffering from the affects of said institution. It’s called fantasy, people!Fiction! Man in the High Castle blah blah blah.”

Studio Head: OK OK fine. What if the slave is light skin, like a rihanna slave. That’s better right?

Studio head: Yes, I said affair. It’s not rape if the woman is wearing light fabric and there’s soft lighting in the shot... I’m confused... what do you mean by “coercion” and what is consent? We don’t have time for those buzzwords. Just use soft lighting!

Studio Head: A female slave should have a hot steamy affair with the master, get pregnant by him and then decide to stay a slave. That’s great. I love it. Does Lupita want to do it? Someone get Lupita on the phone.

Lol

Studio Head: So what your saying is, this is a story about black resilience, self determination with no good white people? I don’t get it.

These are interesting concepts, but... none of them have a foundation of black pain, suffering, and exploitation. So, it’s gonna be a “no” from the big studios.

How nice would it be to have an alt-history where Europe and the US hadn’t fucked over the rest of the world with colonialism and White Supremacy? Then you could actually examine how fucked up their actions have been and the consequences everyone experiences to this day.