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

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Makeveli_lives 4 hours ago#1
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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Monday 4 hours ago#2
Alright, so now nobody should have a problem with the show HBO is doing. Good, no more whining.
Doe 4 hours ago#3
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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Tezlok 4 hours ago#4
All the people protesting Confederate will champion this show and the 2 shows will become bitter rivals
Esrac 4 hours ago#5
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.
Fishy 4 hours ago#6
How the f*** 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 s***hole.
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Supra574 4 hours ago#7
they should do the reverse 

or if they never brought slaves here

like this country would be wayy different
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AcFan87 4 hours ago#8
LMAO
Liberals rewriting history. How cute.
that was fast
LittleRoyal 3 hours ago#10
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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ZCheveyo 3 hours ago#13
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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ColdOne666 3 hours ago#14
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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Doe 3 hours ago#15
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 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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Doe 3 hours ago#17
It's such a nonsensical premise

I'd be surprised if this even actually gets to airing
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.
MakoReizei 3 hours ago#19
sounds like someone took the idea from a mod for a Paradox game and decided it would work as a show.
AcFan87 posted...
LMAO
Liberals rewriting history. How cute.

Lol someone does not know what alternate history fiction is.
when you stub your toes it's the SJWs fualt.
Will they focus on racism and other social problems in New Colonia, or will it be a utopia?
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Deadpool_18 3 hours ago#22
As someone who was born and raised in Mississippi, lmao @ it ever becoming powerful.
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Makeveli_lives 3 hours ago#23
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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Holy_Cloud105 3 hours ago#24
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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uwnim 3 hours ago#25
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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OrtegaTron 3 hours ago#26
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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SSJ-Greedo 3 hours ago#27
The US would be better off if it didn't have those three states holding it down.
boxington 3 hours ago#28
oh, I thought it really was about there being no black slaves in the US. 

it's an interesting idea, I guess.
ClockworkHare 3 hours ago#29
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

TIhc9KY

LouisianaMississippi, and Alabama

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KILBOTz 3 hours ago#30
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.
KILBOTz 3 hours ago#31
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.
MrPeppers 3 hours ago#32
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.
ZCheveyo 3 hours ago#33
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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KILBOTz 3 hours ago#34
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?
MelzezDoor 3 hours ago#35
That alternate Nazi history show on Amazon was popular enough. Maybe this will go places.
ZCheveyo 3 hours ago#36
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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Sativa_Rerose 3 hours ago#37
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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XHJYFL 3 hours ago#38
*looks at Liberia and Haiti*

I find the show's premise quite unrealistic.
Tezlok 3 hours ago#39
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

TIhc9KY

LouisianaMississippi, and Alabama

OpoH1DJ

100% this. The idea is actually pretty interesting, then it just goes absurd.
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DoctorVader 3 hours ago#41
Sounds like a "me too" cash job they dug up from their project bag.
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Deadpool_18 2 hours ago#42
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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AcFan87 2 hours ago#43
LittleRoyal posted...
Sounds unrealistic

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