I’m never going to spend another dime on media that deals with slavery or the Civil War that doesn’t have the Black folks at the center of the narrative.
I’m never going to spend another dime on media that deals with slavery or the Civil War that doesn’t have the Black folks at the center of the narrative.
Have Blacks at the center of a narrative of slavery and actually show white people (including Lincoln who saw blacks as intellectually inferior) in a bad light; surely you’re jesting. I hate to sound like conspiracy sistah, but I see this movie as part of a larger cultural trend desperate to whitewash US history so that current racist activity, for example the raw hatred demonstrated against the POTUS and first family, can be brushed off as something less sinister.
Yes. This.
Have you seen this?
This? is another good article along those lines.
And you know the sad part is that Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter is probably more historically accurate.
Even with the light-skinned Harriet Tubman.
*dead*
We haven’t watched the film but we did read that book:
http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2012/05/review-abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter.html
It… was unpleasant