Current Events > Amazon to make alternate history show where black people are not slaves

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http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2017/08/amazon-producing-alt-history-show-where-black-people-get-reparations

Enter Amazon and their announcement that they will also be producing an alternate history drama in which black people received reparations in the form of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama and formed a separate country. The nation, which is called New Colonia, has had an often turbulent relationship with it's northern neighbor and former enslaver, the United States. The show will take place close to the present day, with New Colonia growing to become a formidable nation on the world stage that reaches peace with the U.S., a country which is in decline. The show, which has been in works for over a year, will be titled Black America.
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Alright, so now nobody should have a problem with the show HBO is doing. Good, no more whining.
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Makeveli_lives posted...

New Colonia growing to become a formidable nation on the world stage that reaches peace with the U.S., a country which is in decline

lmao
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All the people protesting Confederate will champion this show and the 2 shows will become bitter rivals

Doe posted...

Makeveli_lives posted...

New Colonia growing to become a formidable nation on the world stage that reaches peace with the U.S., a country which is in decline

lmao

Who knew Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama were so carrying the US to world power all this time.
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How the fuck would those three states ever become a global power. There's a reason that even in one of the most powerful countries on Earth they're still a shithole.
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they should do the reverse

or if they never brought slaves here

like this country would be wayy different
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LMAO
Liberals rewriting history. How cute.

that was fast
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Sounds unrealistic
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AcFan87 posted...

LMAO
Liberals rewriting history. How cute.

... arent conservatives doing the exact same thing with the new confederacy show? :u
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I'm curious as to how they are going to show those three states in particular becoming a world power. If they have an even remotely possible way then that is cool, if not then I think they should reconsider and move it somewhere else.

I wonder if they chose those simply because of the history of the states, leading to more drama, and not so much what they could do economically.
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This is what happens when you let SJW's with no talent make a tv show. Who was dumb enough to pay for this lol.
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OpheliaAdenade posted...

AcFan87 posted...

LMAO
Liberals rewriting history. How cute.

... arent conservatives doing the exact same thing with the new confederacy show? :u

Isn't that show about slavery being terrible?
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I hope they at least have New Colonia adding new territories/states since it was created, not just remaining Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama
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It's such a nonsensical premise

I'd be surprised if this even actually gets to airing
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Doe posted...

OpheliaAdenade posted...

AcFan87 posted...

LMAO
Liberals rewriting history. How cute.

... arent conservatives doing the exact same thing with the new confederacy show? :u

Isn't that show about slavery being terrible?

I don't know. I didn't even know about the show period till CE made me aware of it. From the sound of it, it is based around a what if scenario where the confederacy didn't lose the civil war. I mean, regardless of how it portrays slavery, it is rewriting history.
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sounds like someone took the idea from a mod for a Paradox game and decided it would work as a show.
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AcFan87 posted...

LMAO
Liberals rewriting history. How cute.

Lol someone does not know what alternate history fiction is.
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Will they focus on racism and other social problems in New Colonia, or will it be a utopia?
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As someone who was born and raised in Mississippi, lmao @ it ever becoming powerful.
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Doe posted...

It's such a nonsensical premise

I'd be surprised if this even actually gets to airing

Its been worked on for the last year. The announcement is coming as response to HBO shoe I'm assuming
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I thought it was gonna be the other way around where the blacks enslaved the whites. That sounds better than thinking Alabama, Lousiana and Mississppi could ever make a super power.
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How important is the Mississippi River for shipping? Controlling the end of it is the only thing I could see them having any power.
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People will watch it regardless of whether or not its good because it appeals to white guilt, and implies empowering blacks. Smart move on their part tbh.
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The US would be better off if it didn't have those three states holding it down.

oh, I thought it really was about there being no black slaves in the US.

it's an interesting idea, I guess.
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The show will take place close to the present day, with New Colonia growing to become a formidable nation on the world stage that reaches peace with the U.S

Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama

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Doe posted...

Makeveli_lives posted...

New Colonia growing to become a formidable nation on the world stage that reaches peace with the U.S., a country which is in decline

lmao

a broken US being on the decline seems plausible enough. Losing 3 states would change everything. Butterfly creating a tsunami and all that.

new colonia becoming a world power though, that would seem difficult, especially with the US declining, unless they were propping them up for years.

like at best i could see them at about mexico level on a per capita basis.
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uwnim posted...

How important is the Mississippi River for shipping? Controlling the end of it is the only thing I could see them having any power.

super important.
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ZCheveyo posted...

I'm curious as to how they are going to show those three states in particular becoming a world power. If they have an even remotely possible way then that is cool, if not then I think they should reconsider and move it somewhere else.

I wonder if they chose those simply because of the history of the states, leading to more drama, and not so much what they could do economically.

They most likely chose those states because they have the highest number of African Americans and the most extensive histories of slavery.
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KILBOTz posted...

new colonia becoming a world power though, that would seem difficult, especially with the US declining, unless they were propping them up for years.

Not to mention all the natural disasters that hit these particular areas. Flooding from the river in Mississippi and Louisiana. Runoff from the chemicals in the river have created dead spots, etc.

Hurricanes. Hell, repairing the damage done in Louisiana alone would be all but impossible if it was reliant on just those three states. They'd never survive.
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MrPeppers posted...

ZCheveyo posted...

I'm curious as to how they are going to show those three states in particular becoming a world power. If they have an even remotely possible way then that is cool, if not then I think they should reconsider and move it somewhere else.

I wonder if they chose those simply because of the history of the states, leading to more drama, and not so much what they could do economically.

They most likely chose those states because they have the highest number of African Americans and the most extensive histories of slavery.

and i mean lets be honest, if you were america and had to give away 3 states, wouldn't those be the 3?
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That alternate Nazi history show on Amazon was popular enough. Maybe this will go places.
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KILBOTz posted...

if you were america and had to give away 3 states, wouldn't those be the 3?

Around the Civil War? No....Mississippi was one of the richest states. Fifth in the nation.
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Ironically, if what this show is going to be about is black separatism, that's the same thing that a lot of the white supremacists (or as they call themselves, "race realists") and KKK types want.

Many of them will deny that they think whites are superior, but rather they think that whites and blacks should live separately and form their own racially isolated societies. That sounds like this show.

This could end up being the KKK's favorite show.
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*looks at Liberia and Haiti*

I find the show's premise quite unrealistic.
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OpheliaAdenade posted...

Doe posted...

OpheliaAdenade posted...

AcFan87 posted...

LMAO
Liberals rewriting history. How cute.

... arent conservatives doing the exact same thing with the new confederacy show? :u

Isn't that show about slavery being terrible?

I don't know. I didn't even know about the show period till CE made me aware of it. From the sound of it, it is based around a what if scenario where the confederacy didn't lose the civil war. I mean, regardless of how it portrays slavery, it is rewriting history.

Yes and there is nothing wrong with that. It's called Alternate History. It's a legit genre. A man named Harry Turtledove has made a career out of writing Alternate History novels

ClockworkHare posted...

The show will take place close to the present day, with New Colonia growing to become a formidable nation on the world stage that reaches peace with the U.S

Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama

100% this. The idea is actually pretty interesting, then it just goes absurd.
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Sounds like a "me too" cash job they dug up from their project bag.
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uwnim posted...

How important is the Mississippi River for shipping? Controlling the end of it is the only thing I could see them having any power.

Very
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LittleRoyal posted...

Sounds unrealistic

Let the left have their fictional utopia......that's the only way something like that can exist--in fiction.

If that HBO show gets more viewership will people use it as evidence that people are racist?
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XHJYFL posted...

*looks at Liberia and Haiti*

I find the show's premise quite unrealistic.

Wyclef Jean is from Haiti, and he's pretty awesome. Maybe these three nations produce the most popular rappers or they find some vibranium or whatever. It's fiction. They can just make something up that doesn't have to make 100 percent sense. You guys watch Star Wars and The Walking Dead, but can't wrap your head around this show? Come on!
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Assuming they could get a decent naval grasp on the Gulf of Mexico and establish trade, it's not exactly impossible for these states to be independent, especially if they were established post-Civil war. They are fertile enough to grow their own food, and placed in an important strategic location to get the US proper to treat them respectfully, re: shipping.

The rest of the US being in decline is just a piece of the world-building.
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Doe posted...

Makeveli_lives posted...

New Colonia growing to become a formidable nation on the world stage that reaches peace with the U.S., a country which is in decline

lmao

double lmao
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Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama?

MelzezDoor posted...

That alternate Nazi history show on Amazon was popular enough. Maybe this will go places.

not sure if this one is based on an existing work, but The Man in the High Castle was originally a Phillip K. Dick novel
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OH SHIT! This is Aaron McGruder's Amazon project?

I'm so fucking in.

Makeveli_lives posted...

Enter Amazon and their announcement that they will also be producing an alternate history drama in which black people received reparations in the form of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama and formed a separate country. The nation, which is called New Colonia, has had an often turbulent relationship with it's northern neighbor and former enslaver, the United States. The show will take place close to the present day, with New Colonia growing to become a formidable nation on the world stage that reaches peace with the U.S., a country which is in decline. The show, which has been in works for over a year, will be titled Black America.

This is essentially Liberia, though.