Showing posts with label confederacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label confederacy. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

HBO's Blunder: Confederate

Anyone who really knows history understands that the civil war was not about slavery, it was about state's rights. Slavery just happened to be an issue that had already been rectified in the Northern States, and it was on its way out in the South, taking longer because of the nature of the economy at that time.

HBO has decided that if the South had won, slavery would still exist today. What would the world be like then?

Their newest project "The Confederacy" explores this idea, to the chagrin of many Southerners who don't like the idea of the series.
Some newspapers claim that it hits "too close to home" being the reason for the outcries against the series.

You decide:


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