http://www.kctv5.com/story/35941280/creators-of-new-hbo-series-address-fears-it-glorifies-racism

Commentary by David Cohensteinberg

HBO’s announcement on Wednesday that the creator-showrunners of “Game of Thrones” will follow up that massive hit with an HBO series in which slavery remains legal in the modern-day South drew fire on social media from those who fear that telling that story will glorify racism.

As if the creators of Game of Thrones haven’t made enough shekels already off of their sexist series. How dare they! And now they want to profit off of racism and slavery? Why are racists so greedy?

This new show “Confederate” (just typing that word is disgusting) is going to make it OK for whites to use the “n word” again. I’m going on the record and predict a spike in black crime. And more black children will be born out of wedlock. Because just the thought of slavery makes black people do bad things.

The series, “Confederate,” will take place in an alternate timeline where the southern states have successfully seceded from the Union and formed a nation in which legalized slavery has evolved into a modern institution. The story follows “a broad swath of characters on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Demilitarized Zone,” HBO said – “freedom fighters, slave hunters, politicians, abolitionists, journalists, the executives of a slave-holding conglomerate and the families of people in their thrall.” It is not expected to start production for at least a year. “Confederate” will be created and written by “Game of Thrones” masterminds David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, who will also serve as showrunners on the series. Both are white.

First the white man stole the land from the indians. Because this land legally belonged to them first. It really did. Unlike racist Europeans, the indians didn’t migrate here. They organically grew out of the ground like trees. It was kinda like a spiritual awakening. They were so peaceful and happy. Then the white man came and turned them into savage alcoholics. That’s why they went on the war path and scalped white families and burned their wagons. They were drunk on the white man’s poison. Plus, the white man kept killing all their buffalo, too. How fucked up is that?

After white men stole the land from the indians, they kidnapped Africans and made them slaves. The white man knew that black skin was a sign of intelligence and strength. Why do you think they were kings? And the white man put them in chains and used them as farm equipment. As if that weren’t degrading enough, they even called them the “n word” for crying out loud.

And now these two greedy “white masterminds” want to make an HBO series where slavery is legal? I can only imagine how many times the “n word” will be used by the slave owners and their wives. And they will depict the South as this wonderful place because blacks are in chains and not roaming the streets doing drive-by shootings or raping white women. Because slaves would know if they raped a white woman they would get lynched by the KKK.

For the record, I did a little research on the “white masterminds.” Apparently they’re both Jewish, but that doesn’t matter. They’re really white, and that’s most important. The only time a Jewish person isn’t white is when someone makes anti-semitic comments. Or if a Jew is accused of being racist. Then they aren’t white, they’re Jewish. I know it’s confusing, so let me give you an example. If someone says Benioff and Weiss are racists for making this racist series, they’ll say they can’t be racist cause they’re Jews. Only white people can be racist. But if you say they’re Jews, that’s anti-semitic. Cause only an anti-semite would call a Jew a Jew. Make sense now? If not, you’re probably an anti-semite. So fuck off. Cause anti-semites are even worse than racists.

HBO’s announcement also said they would join forces with Malcolm Spellman (“Empire,” the forthcoming “Foxy Brown”) and Nichelle Tramble Spellman (“Justified,” ”The Good Wife”), husband-and-wife TV veterans who both are black and who will be fellow executive producers and writers on the new series.

You see what HBO did there? They’re using black people to mask their racism. Now people can’t say the show is racist. Because black people can’t be racist, only white people can.

Other series have imagined uncomfortable alternate versions of history, notably Amazon’s “The Man in the High Castle,” which depicts life in the United States had the Nazis won World War II. But slavery in the United States is a far more sensitive and lingering issue. Malcolm Spellman’s take on it: “You’re dealing with weapons-grade material here.”

Whoa! Slavery is terrible. And millions of blacks were lynched for raping white women. But. And I mean BUT. Nothing is more of a lingering issue than the 60 million Jews that were gassed in the holocaust. I don’t care how many slaves were called the “n word,” nothing compares to the atrocities of Nazi Germany. Sure, blacks were beaten for not picking cotton fast enough or looking lustfully at the slave master’s daughter, but the skin of dead Jews were used as lampshades for Hitler’s family members. I even heard Hitler let his dog use Jewish leg bones as chew toys. No comparison. Sorry.

Weiss called slavery “our original sin as a nation. And history doesn’t disappear. … It’s an ugly and a painful history, but we all think this is a reason to talk about it, not a reason to run from it. And this feels like a potentially valuable way to talk about it.”

I disagree. The original sin was stealing the land from the indians. They were here first. America belongs to them. And now they sit on reservations drinking cheap liquor. They can’t even hunt buffalo anymore. Or cure droughts with rain dances. That’s America’s original sin. Stealing this beautiful land from the peaceful indians.

The history of white supremacy won’t disappear until you take down all the white statues. Until America is given back to the indians. Until the white man goes back to Europe. That’s when the painful and ugly history will go away. Not when white men like Weiss and Benioff see value in the oppression of others. Making movies is about profit, not about healing.

This series is going to set race-relations back hundreds of years. Whites are going to be under the illusion that if the South would have won the war, it would be a better place to live for white people. That it’s alright to call blacks the “n word.” That blacks somehow aren’t as civilized as white people. What racist bullshit! They were kings before the white man put them in chains.

No matter how statistically safer the South would be if blacks were still slaves, white people need to think about this: What about basketball? What about rap music? What about TV commercials? What about all the prison employees that would be out of work? What about BBC porn? Think about that white man.

Without free black men, white society would be so boring. Variety is the spice of life and black people are just so damn spicy. But white people know this, that’s why 620,000 white men died in the Civil War. So blacks could be free to entertain white people.