Posted on 08/01/2017 10:07:17 AM PDT by EdnaMode
A week after HBO's botched announcement of its upcoming slavery drama Confederate, Amazon is partnering with Will Packer for its own alt-history series.
The streaming service is developing Black America, a drama that envisions 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. The drama hails from prolific producer Packer (Girls Trip, Ride Along) and Peabody-winning The Boondocks creator and Black Jesus co-creator Aaron McGruder.
In the show, the sovereign nation formed, New Colonia, has had a tumultuous and sometimes violent relationship with its looming “Big Neighbor,” both ally and foe, the United States. The past 150 years have been witness to military incursions, assassinations, regime change, coups, etc. Today, after two decades of peace with the US and unprecedented growth, an ascendant New Colonia joins the ranks of major industrialized nations on the world stage as America slides into rapid decline. Inexorably tied together, the fate of two nations, indivisible, hangs in the balance.
Deadline first announced news of the Amazon project in February — but at the time, the producers wouldn't reveal any additional details about the series except that it would take place in an alternate universe in the vein of another Amazon series, The Man in the High Castle, which takes a look at what the world might look like had the outcome of World War II turned out differently.
HBO's announcement of Confederate, from Game of Thrones creators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff, is what prompted the producers behind Black America to unveil the show's premise. “It felt this was the appropriate time to make sure that audiences and the creative community knew that there was a project that preexisted and we are pretty far down the road with it,” Packer told Deadline.
Amazon's interest in the series was first reported by Ankler.
Ok, but apart from the Railroads, Universities and Factories, what have the Whites EVER done for us?
Because it is as social justice-y as the Amazon series on transgender characters.
I kinda like Sneaky Pete so far (4 episodes in).
I’d be much more interested in an alt-history series depicting the US had slaves never been brought here.
Yup
Yeah exactly. It still boggles the mind how anyone can say that Handmaid’s Tale is happening in the US.
Starring Kate McKinnon as Hillary.
So we get Liberia in Louisiana?
scenes from the aftermath of Katrina in New Orleans would lead one to think that...
It made no economic sense to feed, house, cloth and provide medical care for an investment that did not cash flow.
which explains the seceding states’ heated insistence on expanding slavery westward into the territories, I guess...
In the revisionist sense,the most humane thing to have done would be to repatriate every slave back to Africa.
except that Africa hadn’t wanted these people in the first place, and would have made things warm for the repatriating ships, perhaps sparking another ‘incident’...
Why if only the white man had done right all blacks would behave like Ben Carson and look like Thandie Newton and Lenny Kravitz
I’m a Yankee, and I don’t believe any such thing as you’ve described; you are remarkably limited in your view of reality...my thought is if the white man had done right, he’d have paid migrant workers to supply the labor intensive agronomy at a pittance of his profit, and the importation of Stone Age savages who were then denied means of assimilation would not have been necessary...and we would not be saddled with irreparable race relations which I believe will split the nation asunder on cultural levels...
Something stupid Yankee no blacks around freepers will never comprehend
ok, translation please...
Do I have to put sarcasm tags
Your plan for assimilating Stone Age savages would have been?
What state are you in?
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