>After the announcement of HBO’s controversial new series Confederate, from the Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and DB Weiss, Amazon has revealed the premise of its own alternative-history series, Black America.
>It will envision a post-reparations America, where black Americans inhabit a sovereign nation, New Colonia, comprised of the southern states of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. The series will chronicle the complicated relationship between New Colonia and the US in a post-Reconstruction milieu, where the former has established itself as a fully industrialized country while the US struggles to stay afloat economically. It will chart the complex relations between the two countries, which are geopolitically linked but marred by a violent past.
i thought the north was much richer and more industrialised than the south by the time the war started
David Richardson
Is this all that Hollywood and the media will do now? Constantly force racial tensions?
Carson Allen
How is this not as racist?
Jace Young
Only if it's like the Chappelle sketch
Parker Campbell
ahhahahahahahahahhaahahahahahahahaha jesus h christ this will be hilarious I'll definitely watch this shit (pirated of course)
Jordan Diaz
I think black people will call bullshit on this one. They know people around them aren't capable of forming an industrialized society that outpaces white people
Anthony Carter
If they make the black state fail like Zimbabwe or South Africa post-apartheid, I might. I bet they will make it look like an utopia surrounded by evil white nations, begging for hand-outs or trying to steal from the noble black man.
Justin Morales
I love how they avoided the "black people moving to Liberia" thing, maybe they tried to avoid an accidental redpill there.
Levi Brown
>New Colonia and the US in a post-Reconstruction milieu, where the former has established itself as a fully industrialized country while the US struggles to stay afloat economically hahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Jaxson Martinez
Have these writers never heard of Libya?
Lincoln Moore
Liberia.jpg
Connor Scott
It was, not to mention the destruction on the land in the South.
I doubt a bunch of illiterate uneducated people could rebuild that without US federal aid.
Noah Morris
>the former has established itself as a fully industrialized country while the US struggles to stay afloat economically
Why would that have happened?
Kevin White
don't forget gender tension
Brody Rodriguez
i support giving blacks their own homeland and sending them all there
Gavin Murphy
>southern states >fully industrialized country
I don't think Amazon even gets what's wrong with this concept.
Liam Cox
damn some of the comments here are like something out of a kkk meetup
Elijah Long
Jews in Nig Colonia and the US working together.
Luke Harris
when are they gonna make a movie about slavery with whites?
David Hill
Because blacks are super smart and invented everything
Just look at the totally real country of wakanda
Lincoln Howard
>New Colonia and the US in a post-Reconstruction milieu, where the former has established itself as a fully industrialized country while the US struggles to stay afloat economically
Shouldn't it be the other way around?
Isaiah Kelly
America literally cant function without black people
David Russell
Come on man. That is an impossible task for former slaves of anyrace. Just because you have been oppressed does give you super powers
Ethan Gray
It's Liberia you stupid fuck.
Jace Wilson
>It will envision a post-reparations America, where black Americans inhabit a sovereign nation, New Colonia, comprised of the southern states of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. The series will chronicle the complicated relationship between New Colonia and the US in a post-Reconstruction milieu, where the former has established itself as a fully industrialized country while the US struggles to stay afloat economically. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>implying
Carter Peterson
Like South Africa cant function with white people.
Isaiah Russell
Every Amazon show is fucking garbage, so no.
Levi Barnes
>America literally cant function without black people
>watching amazon originals yea no thanks literally worse than the netflix crap
Michael Wilson
>black people in charge of running a country
Jose Gutierrez
>where the former has established itself as a fully industrialized country while the US struggles to stay afloat economically
pfffthahahahahahaha
Wyatt Rogers
>doing alt-history when you could instead do a historical drama about the founding of Liberia and the African-American enslavement of native-Liberians that led Liberia to becoming the richest nation in Africa until the civil wars brought it all down.
nah let's keep doing fake history
Michael Garcia
I wish just one of these tech media companies would do something against the grain. But they can't because all the admin work is done by women and gays and they don't want the drama everyday at work
Jaxon Carter
>see premise >huh this actually sounds like it could be alrigh- >"where the former has established itself as a fully industrialized country while the US struggles to stay afloat economically."
Swing and a miss
Logan Martin
>where the former has established itself as a fully industrialized country while the US struggles to stay afloat economically
Jacob Williams
You don't need an alt-history series to see how blacks run a country, just take your pick from any of the hellholes in Africa and do a documentary on that.
Thomas Ramirez
That's right whitey. Mississippi would look like Wakanda if it wasn't for you cumskins ruining everything
Brody Stewart
>where the former has established itself as a fully industrialized country while the US struggles to stay afloat economically
Oliver Thompson
>Transformers 5 was literally Marky Mark in a dick measuring contest with a literal girl before getting in a dick measuring contest with a British chick
Julian Foster
Between this and Black Panther, wypipo will literally never recover
Jeremiah Roberts
Yeah, something like that actually happened in real life. It was sterling success in every way - part of ex-slaves who got back their freedom decided to sail back to Africa to set up a country called Liberia.
Do you know what was the first thing they did after they landed?
They enslaved each other.
In modern times a general called Butt Naked was wreaking havok and eating people before he converted to christianity.
Lincoln Collins
You don't even have to look at Africa, just look at Detroit or Baltimore, etc.
Ryan Gonzalez
How does this shit even make sense? >North has better economy >North wins war >South in ruins >South left to uneducated blacks >South suddenly becomes richer and more powerful than the North
Justin Anderson
kek I forgot about this guy
Levi King
>New Colonia, comprised of the southern states of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama
They wouldn't have the resources to ever compete with the US. If they gave the niggers Alaska it may be a bit more believable but even then niggers can't handle the cold.
Dominic Brooks
The power of WE
Nathaniel Peterson
Melanin is magic, whiteboi
Robert White
UUUUHHHHH ERRRRRGGHGHGHGH CUUUUUUCKS
Aiden Torres
>It will envision a post-reparations America, where black Americans inhabit a sovereign nation, New Colonia, comprised of the southern states of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama.
So Liberia?
Justin Torres
WE
Jose Howard
fucking lmao this is going to be hilarious
Julian Kelly
how would this end any different than those african colonies blacks took over?
Christopher Peterson
watch this? you're kidding right? do you have to ask?
its gonna be a living meme, i will savor every second
Brody Parker
They are going to show black people lounging around in gardens eating fruits and wearing Egyptian gold clothing
Luis James
I'm black and I wouldn't watch either of these shows for money. Let alone pay for them.
The good thing is GoT will be over by then so I can just cancel my HBO with no regrets.
Ryan Scott
It's alternate history, so it's already autistic. I'll respond autistically:
Why would the US willingly give up territory when they just fought a massive Civil War to keep the Union together? It doesn't make any sense in any world. Maybe something where they moved black people elsewhere, like a random ejection of some central american state.
Second, doesn't this seem super racist? White people literally couldn't stand free black people, so they kicked them out of America.
Landon Flores
Are blacks a large part of Amazon Prime's subscription base?
Or is it going to be like their other "hit" Transparent; where critics rave about it and give a boat load of awards, but nobody actually watches the show
Aaron Robinson
>making sense It's liberal wish fulfilment fantasy, it doesn't have to
Ian Davis
People still think the civil war was fought to free the slaves.
Nathan Perry
When are they going to make the show where the Holocaust happens and all races live together peacefully?
Brody Roberts
Hmmmm I always wondered
If humans had different species and could only breed with the same type of color
What races would die out?
Hunter Roberts
Will New Colonia be a warlord failed state and America has a border wall around it to keep them out?
Parker Lee
The South technically did fight chiefly for the right to own slaves, but the Union said fuck anyone ever seceding. We're all in this forever, fuck you for wanting to leave.
Jacob Clark
I wonder who could be behind this?
Evan Cruz
Remember this: a couple of black celebs will call the show dumb and then there will be long ass articles calling them uncle toms
Levi Sanders
if you need some capitalistic reasoning then its about public image.
But I suspect a lot of those dotcom millionaires are willing to burn some money to ease their conscience and feel like they are part of a "cause".
Parker Cooper
How? Well, if the millenial cocksuckers will keep trying to vote in socialist swines like Sanders, then it might actually happen. And given your demographic shift, and the fact that only european based societies are capable of realizing that socialism is shit, you might never again recover.
Look at Venezuela - you think they will vote in anyone else but another commie fuck?
Chase Jenkins
>produced by Aaron Mcgruder
Yes
Landon Lewis
This would unironically have been a better outcome of the civil war
Lincoln Young
The North didn't start the war over slavery.
Hudson Hernandez
Glorifying segregation? Hell yes!
Jeremiah Gray
I was with it until "oh and obviously New Colonia is doing much better than the rest of America". To be honest, there's no point all you fags getting annoyed about shit like this. This is just the Zeitgeist at the moment: pandering to blacks and women. Eventually, possibly even with this show, normies will cotton on to how shallow and empty and just a grab for cash all this stuff is. It has nothing to do with art and just what is selling right now.
Brody Peterson
>Fuck whitey holding us down >Self-segregation is good What the fuck
Jason Perry
You've clearly never dealt with a black person before. Read the comments on a black panther trailer. They honestly Africa would be like that without white people
Connor Watson
What's Liberia?
Wyatt Cook
Flying cars and they've cured every illness. The old America is Zimbabwe tier and begs for New Colonia to help them constantly
Joshua Lopez
Hope this show brings inspiration.
Gabriel Brown
>black "nation" is just modern day Detroit completely walled in A documentary it is then.
James Sanchez
Would Martin Luther King like the show?
Parker Cruz
Can't handle the cold? Dude black people live everywhere from Baton Rouge to Detroit, and Detroit is hell frozen over.
Noah Martin
I'll get rid of HBO but keep Prime because I buy everything off of Amazon.
After thinking about it I think the companies are trying to recreate the magic of Man in the High Castle but doing it spectacularly wrong.
Luke Jones
That's a semantics argument. Slavery was very clearly something the South wanted to continue and spread to the West.
Ian Edwards
you dont belong here
Evan Evans
>That's a semantics argument
And saying the North fought to free slaves is just flat out wrong. Slaves weren't "freed" until 2 years into the war.
Benjamin Barnes
how do you know how people behave in kkk meetups
Jacob Ramirez
But we already have Planet of the Apes.
Matthew Lee
I'm gonna have to revoke your Sup Forums pass for being a faggot.
Jordan Sanchez
This would be a bit more believable if they got cali and texas but people are seriously supposed to believe that a combination of fucking bama, mississippi and LA would perform better economically than the rest of the country
Hudson Morgan
>New Colonia and the US in a post-Reconstruction milieu, where the former has established itself as a fully industrialized country while the US struggles to stay afloat economically
The serie is sc-fi, right ?
Nicholas Lee
I didn't say they did. The North fought because they didn't believe the South had the right to secede.
Asher Sanchez
Wait, a uneducated slave state made up of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama is able to magically shift from an agrarian to industrial economy while the already-industrialized northern US is struggling?
Er, no.
Parker Barnes
Texas had nothing until oil was discovered. It was like Montana or Wyoming-tier.
Ryder Brooks
this isn't what I expected when I saw all the funny screencaps on r/Sup Forums >_>