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.

I just hope that people recognize that every sex scene between a master and a slave should be considered rape.

I figure it will turn into a brief career sport, guys retiring after 3-5 years. Like a tour of duty.

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.

I loved the Wire, and it does tackle those subjects, but I don’t think it explicitly reached back all the way to slavery but my memory could be off on that. I fully agree skepticism is warranted and it could well turn as you say, or worse. Having the Spellmans on board right from start hopefully will allow the show to…

There are slaves all over the US right now and many perform skilled labor producing commercial products, not sure how modern slavery is unbelievable to you; we have it now.

You do realize slavery still exists today? I’m not just talking about religious groups bringing in slaves to build their compounds in North Carolina, but on a mass scale in Saudia Arabia, Uzbekistan, India and China. There are more slaves today than existed in the 1800s. In Uzebekistan they are literally used for…

Just because he took a smart path to get his money and get out doesn’t mean that he didn’t love the game. He is just smart enough to realize it is a bad long term career for ones health.

There has seriously gotta be a better way to educate people though. Like nine different ways. Does it have to involve profiting off the portrayal of the subjugation and misery of black people? Does it have to be on a premium channel that lower-middle class white folks probably won’t shell out for just to have their…

That white man will have 1 black friend, statistically, and that’s it. All he needs to do to learn about slavery is invite that black friend dinner and then let the black friend talk while he, the white man, shuts the f*ck up. It’ll cost him $100 or so, and he will know history and we’d all be spared this shitstorm…

Some slaves were skilled laborers. Blacksmiths, chefs, and so on. Owners would invest in such training. Industrial slaves were a thing in the antebellum South. Furthermore, one of the most popular forms of slavery-in-all-but-name in the Jim Crow South was prison labor at places like steel mills (Slavery By Another…

Just think of them as Mexicans we don’t pay $2 an hour.

Eh, slaves did a lot of skilled work. In fact, a lot of the early plantation owners had no knowledge of the crops they grew and specifically requested slaves skilled in that area. There were also slave blacksmiths, masons, mariners, carpenters and so on. Here’s a quote on the subject: “The truth is, enslaved people…

What was The Wire about?

This. All of this. Happened to my sister and me in the early 80s.

I wonder how much of his career was for “a love for football” and how much was just smartly making the most money possible fresh out of school and saying what was needed to make it to that pension. I always loved seeing him in interviews, I hope he doesn’t completely disappear now that he isn’t in the league.

1) There are a ton of movies and TV shows that deal with the oppression that black people face. It’s not uncommon at all.

One thing, which would be that class and race are not neatly separatable. You can’t separate black poverty from anti-black policing, for instance (imagine how much potential black wealth has been lost to mass incarceration). Furthermore, one of the most common vehicles of wealth generation is home ownership, but…

why can’t majority black schools have the same opportunities, be it academic or otherwise that other schools have.