H. Nemesis Nyx
Jul 23, 2017 · 1 min read

Yeah. Exactly what I was thinking. How do we treat Holocaust deniers? How do we view them?

Writing a show like this and calling it alternative history is a slap in the face of any civil rights leader ever arrested, unlawfully detained and every single person extrajudicially lynched, along with anyone who ever read a god damn book about American History post 1865.

Calling it alternative history is to deny the truth about what mass incarceration actually is. It denies documented historical facts that demonstrate the ways in which we treated ‘freedmen’ in the US since the civil war.

It’s akin to saying Sally Hemmings gave Thomas Jefferson consent to rape and impregnate her. It is a lie on its face. Yes, trash.

But the worst part of this whole thing in my eyes is that it deepens the already securely rooted LIE that slavery ended with the emancipation proclamation — that this was anymore than a tactic the north used to scare the south and stock their front lines with black bodies for Sherman’s march to the sea.

This clinging to the misperception we educate into our children about the end of slavery in the US can only gripe tighten when we call ‘continued slavery’ alternative history. It’s not alternative.

It is the same.

Trash indeed.

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