'Black America' Alt-History Drama in the Works at Amazon

Hollywood Reporter ^ | August 1, 2017 | Bryn Elise Sandberg

[EdnaMode]

Amazon has had success with alt history shows in the past (Man in the High Castle). Expect this to win many Golden Globes and Emmys.

[gaijin]

Peanut butter, traffic signals, beat-boxing, spin-around rims, THE END..!

[pgkdan]

So we get Liberia in Louisiana?

[ClearCase_guy]

African Americans have secured the Southern states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama post-Reconstruction as reparations for slavery

And now those states look like Detroit and Chicago and Baltimore. And it's whitey's fault.

[OpusatFR]

Election is 2018, don’t you know.

Must make racial havoc to keep everyone in line.

So, when is Bozo running for president?

[Mi-kha-el]

Haiti is another example.

[gaijin]

Boondocks = anime with afros

100% cultural appropriation

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

So, another failed African state... in Amerika. Purrrrrfect!

They can’t get ACTUAL history correct, so the do ‘fake’ history.. just like their ‘fake news’.

[Buckeye McFrog]

So we get Liberia in Louisiana?

Huey Long or Samuel K. Doe.......tough call!

[GCC Catholic]

Man in the High Castle works because it 1) uses very subtle differences in history to effect the alternate timeline; 2) only looks at the divergent timeline about 25 years out; 3) is actually more sci-fi than alt-history per se (explaining why would be a massive spoiler).

This show is going to have to sell the idea really well -- I just can't see a premise of three sovereign states being given away for reparations as plausible, even immediately after the war. I'll probably try to watch at least an episode or two, but it smells like it's going to be SJW nonsense.

[2banana]

The irony is that slavery was a dying institution before the Civil War. Even in the South.

Importation of new slaves was already banned.

More states were banning on it own their own.

Abolition movements, founded in churches, were making political gains in the South.

But the largest reason was that slavery was no longer economically feasible. The industrial age was dawning. Factories, mass production, automation, etc.

It made no economic sense to feed, house, cloth and provide medical care for an investment that did not cash flow.

And PS - I am sure HBO will IGNORE:

The first slave owner in America was a free black.

There were plenty of free blacks who owned slaves.

There were plenty of white slaves.

[mowowie]

expertise in polar bear hunting..

[Buckeye McFrog]

An accurate alternate timeline would actually be:

Lincoln doesn’t die
Reconstruction actually works
Blacks become socially and economically integrated
Segregation ends many decades before it actually did

Of course that would make Republicans look good, so...

[Sans-Culotte]

...an alternate history where newly freed African Americans have secured the Southern states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama post-Reconstruction as reparations for slavery, and with that land, the freedom to shape their own destiny.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

Facts are not racist: There is not a single successful majority-black country in the world. Of course knowing this, revisionist geniuses at Amazon will undoubtedly portray an alternative Sourhern universe as a Black utopia.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#3: "So we get Liberia in Louisiana? "

Isn't it already there?

[rbg81]

And some people will believe it. Just like those idiots going around saying that “The Handmaiden’s Tale” is an accurate depiction of life in Trump’s America.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#13: "Lincoln doesn’t die"

The death of Lincoln was a catastrophe for the South from which we've never recovered. Booth did more to harm the Southland than any single individual. Reconstruction never ended, and its yoke is still upon us.

[Pravious]

I’m surprised they haven’t signed Hillary up to star in an alternate reality series where she really won the Presidency.

[redgolum]

After “Man in a High Castle”, they almost had to do this.