First There Was Confederate Now Aaron McGruder Brings "Black America"
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http://deadline.com/2017/08/black-america-amazon-alt-history-drama-will-packer-aaron-mcgruder-envisions-post-reparations-america-1202139504/amp/EXCLUSIVE: A century and a half after slavery was abolished in the U.S., the wounds left by one of the darkest periods in American history are far from healed, as evidenced by the controversy surrounding the recent announcement of HBO’s upcoming drama series Confederate, from Game Of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, which explores an alternate timeline of seceded southern states where slavery is legal and has evolved into a modern institution.
Another alternate history drama series, which has been in the works at Amazon for over a year, also paints a reality where southern states have left the Union but takes a very different approach. Titled Black America, the drama hails from top feature producer Will Packer (Ride Along, Think Like A Man franchises, Straight Outta Compton) and Peabody-winning The Boondocks creator and Black Jesus co-creator Aaron McGruder. It 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 sovereign nation they 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 U.S. 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 announced the Packer/McGruder project back in early February. At the time, it was untitled, and the producers would not divulge any details about the storyline beyond it revolving around an alternate universe in the vein of Amazon’s flagship The Man in the High Castle.
It was HBO’s announcement of Confederate this month that prompted the Black America team to reveal the project’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
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I wish dude brought back the boondocks
With him getting 100% creative control -
I've enjoyed all shows that mcgruder has created.
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dam we got the worst ? 3 states possible...I'd rather we got NC, SC and GA
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When?
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BigBallsNoWorries wrote: »I wish dude brought back the boondocks
With him getting 100% creative control
All of the things that we've seen since the show ended has definitely been great material.
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dam we got the worst ? 3 states possible...I'd rather we got NC, SC and GA
Caw caw boys assemble -
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dam we got the worst ? 3 states possible...I'd rather we got NC, SC and GA
Watch it, mane. -
Sounds great, I hope Amazon kicks in the needed fund to make a top-level production.
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I memeber debating this in college - if black Americans had a Catalonia, Basque Country, or a Quebec, would black Americans be better off?
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I don't care for alternate history....
Regardless who comes out the faux story with more power....
If, if was a spliff......
We'd all be high......
Let Stan Lee handle the what ifs.....
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MarcusGarvey wrote: »I memeber debating this in college - if black Americans had a Catalonia, Basque Country, or a Quebec, would black Americans be better off?
For a while we would be, but they'd eventually be destroyed just like Black Wallstreet. -
dam we got the worst ? 3 states possible...I'd rather we got NC, SC and GA
Watch ya mouth
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onetoughmiracle wrote: »BigBallsNoWorries wrote: »I wish dude brought back the boondocks
With him getting 100% creative control
All of the things that we've seen since the show ended has definitely been great material. -
crazy how one version has blacks having their own, and are prospering...no role reversal or anything.
the other mfs just wanna own slaves and sht. -
Made a thread about this in LCA, but I can't wait to see it.
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they need to add a ? patrol to round up the ray lewis type ?
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I would never want to live in ? completely ran by black folk. Call me a ? . ? would be horrible. I bet you'd never get owed tax money back. Black women would run the whole ? . Nahhhhh fam.
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I would never want to live in ? completely ran by black folk. Call me a ? . ? would be horrible. I bet you'd never get owed tax money back. Black women would run the whole ? . Nahhhhh fam.
Heard this from lots of black Americans, most don't have passports or been outside of the USA. Born and grew up in JA - The issue in that majority Black Country is class and economics instead of race (still colorism)
Bird born in a cage thinks it's a crime to be free.
It's nice being in a place and you're not constantly reminded your very being is a problem -
I would never want to live in ? completely ran by black folk. Call me a ? . ? would be horrible. I bet you'd never get owed tax money back. Black women would run the whole ? . Nahhhhh fam.
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I would never want to live in ? completely ran by black folk. Call me a ? . ? would be horrible. I bet you'd never get owed tax money back. Black women would run the whole ? . Nahhhhh fam.
Is this guy even black.. You have alot of white dudes acting black -
MarcusGarvey wrote: »I memeber debating this in college - if black Americans had a Catalonia, Basque Country, or a Quebec, would black Americans be better off?
For a while we would be, but they'd eventually be destroyed just like Black Wallstreet.
I think America would've done them like Haiti or Cuba, just meddle and strangle economically -
White mans ice is always colder
But is it?
Last 15 years have shown this whole thing is a sham
Iraq war, Great Recession, Printing of money, Debt Ceiling, Govt shut down, Trump, Clinton, 2016 Election?
Every country has their issues, America fortunate it still has the worlds best economy, even w/ it's flaws -
Trust me m blacker than you lol. Hotep ass ? . Feont for the net. You know deep down you wouldnt want to live in a black america. Ill take the flags and wacks though. -
MarcusGarvey wrote: »I memeber debating this in college - if black Americans had a Catalonia, Basque Country, or a Quebec, would black Americans be better off?
For a while we would be, but they'd eventually be destroyed just like Black Wallstreet.
More like Mexico with globalists jamming us up economically.