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The Aliens Have Come for Our Black People [fictional essay/film Derrick Bell's "Space Traders"]
Slate.com ^ | March 8, 2012, at 9:19 AM ET | By David Weigel

Posted on 03/08/2012 7:59:47 AM PST by fight_truth_decay

When he unveiled the Derrick Bell video on Hannity last night, Breitbart.com's Joel Pollak labored to explain why the late professor was so offensive.

Derrick Bell got into serious trouble when he wrote an essay, a fictional story, called Space Traders, positing that Americans, white Americans would sell black Americans to space aliens in order to pay out the national debt and that Jews would stand by and let it happen. This is a kind of background Derrick Bell had. This is true. "Space Traders" was actually turned into a short film, as part of the 1994 black sci-fi anthology Cosmic Slop. Named after a Parliament/Fundadelic song, hosted by the disembodied head of George Clinton, the movie dramatized what would happen if aliens (the leader of whom looks and talks like Ronald Reagan) offered eternal prosperity in exchange for America's population of black people. The entire clip is on YouTube.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cosmicslop; derrickbell; joelpollak; satire; spacetraders
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To: cripplecreek

..it does have a ring to it..


21 posted on 03/08/2012 3:40:45 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
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To: fight_truth_decay

A rat done bit my sister Nell, cause whitey’s on the moon.


22 posted on 03/08/2012 3:42:36 PM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: fight_truth_decay

I always thought they’d go for the fat people first, in which case, the first real alien invasion will probably be a WalMart parking lot.


23 posted on 03/08/2012 3:43:12 PM PST by Hoffer Rand (There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
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To: JRios1968

That guys hair looks like he spends his free time introducing Mr. Fork to Miss Wall Outlet.


24 posted on 03/08/2012 6:01:14 PM PST by Nebr FAL owner (.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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