When history doesn’t support your side, just change it. It worked for the Nazis and the Soviets, why not the Democrats?
Democrats held the slaves. Republicans freed the slaves.
Funny how that isn’t taught in schools anymore.
Slavery = Democrats
Jim Crows Laws = Democrats
Ku Klux Klan = Democrats
Fire Hoses and Dogs = Democrats
Opposition to the Civil Rights Act = Democrats
Puzzling how they manage to get 95% of the black vote with their history.
They really get their money’s worth from the Ministry of Propaganda.
Sorry - we pretty much got this one covered by Rush - without an excerpt to your PayPal link.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3570965/posts
They should include a look at the Jewish slave traders and the brutal half-black bastards of powerful families who owned the most horrific of the slave operations. Let’s get Spike Lee to make a movie about his (black) slave trading ancestors.
I thought flaming race relations went out with Obama. Speaking of which: Notice how there hasn’t been one riot over a cop shooting since Trump took office. We no longer have the Barry Brown shirts infiltrating communities and lighting the fuse.
How much you wanna bet the ignore all the non-african slaves in this Propaganda dressed up as entertainment?
The suggestion that slavery in America would have lasted past the 19th century is ludicrous.
Unlike “DUNKIRK” this will have “people of color” and
women so will be alright with the liberals media......
As they take down all the Confederate statues, remember, what you are seeing is Democrats taking down statues of Democrats.
This thing is getting slaughtered by all sides of the political spectrum. Watch it be a hit....lol. Controversy is the best thing for a movie or tv show.
Turtledove revisited the theme in the “Southern Victory” series of 11 novels which followed a time-line from a Civil War where General Order 191 had not been lost to the 1940’s.During the course of the series two world wars are fought, but the great battles of the wars are fought on the North American landmass.
In short - it's been done before. I shan't bother watching.
Will they show the confederate flag like they do on the dukes of hazzard?
What cable dramas do nowadays is to make viewers sympathize with "bad guys," with marginalized, outlaw groups that are at best morally ambiguous, at worst downright evil: Mafiosi, drug dealers, drug cookers, drug growers, motorcycle gangs, convicts, lady convicts, escaped convicts, escorts, gigolos, whores and pimps of the Old West, carnival workers ... The list is endless.
To be sure, none of those shows goes directly against contemporary ideas of political correctness. Two White guys have to be careful, and they'd do well to take on collaborators from other groups as insurance.
But PBS's Civil War drama Mercy Street does a pretty good job of avoiding the expected pitfalls. It's not a UDC/SCV version of history by any means, but it shows good and bad in characters from all groups, North and South, Black and White.
In fact, if Benioff and Weiss are very smart, they won't avoid the connection between Democrats and slavery, secession, and segregation. They'd figure their viewers would be smart enough to recognize that the Democrats have changed of the years, and that the audience would also be clever enough to appreciate their usual view of things being turned on its head. Plus, the scriptwriters would find other ways to portray the Republicans as evil.
Then again, this may be such a public relations disaster that the show never gets made or has to wait years before going into production. It's definitely not one of the best ideas TV has come up with. When you read about a show featuring "the executives of a slave-holding conglomerate," do you really think it's something that will run for six or seven seasons?
And while you’re exposing the deification of the Democrat party, don’t forget those “conservatives” who insist that Thomas Jefferson’s strict constructionism (as opposed to the Federalists and Whigs) is the “one true” interpretation of that document, and who insist the Republican party was “red from the start.”