7 Black Alt-History Projects That Would Be Better Than ‘Confederate’

[divider type=”space_thin”] By now you should know that HBO has greenlit a new project from the folks who bring you Game of Thrones, titled Confederate. Here’s the description from the press release:

We, like others across the country, took the longest of long sighs when we read it. It’s not enough to live in an age where Confederate flags are forcibly removed from statehouses, some believe viewers want more pain-based dystopias in our escapist fantasy too. The world is full of alternative history theories, most of which would make 1,000% better TV viewing than this. We have a few ideas studios could run with instead of slavery-based dystopian white supremacy drama bullshit.

Keith Reid-Cleveland

[title type=”h4″]UNCHAINED: A world where the Trans-Atlantic slave trade never happened. [/title] Sure, we’d miss out on a lot of things that people of African Descent have brought to the rest of the world, but we also wouldn’t be 300+ years deep into breaking our backs for other people to live their version of the American Dream. I’d love to pitch a story where slavery never existed at all in the history of humankind, but it’s been a part of warfare and society for so long that my mind isn’t nearly equipped enough to imagine what that world would look like. So, instead, let’s focus on one of the the most inhumane acts committed against a group of people in recorded history. Without generations of displacement, economic disparities, racial tensions, and a lack of opportunities, the…