Why This and NOW
John Legend assembled an all-star cast for this 10 episode period piece that should've played if at all in February. Terrible Disappointment. Is this diversity? should've scrapped this one.
shareYou can't blame any creator/producer/writer for when a network decides to broadcast a show...blame WGN.
shareanother show that's gonna get panned because black people hate white people and can't get over what happened centuries ago , a never ending cycle for which generations will pay for because no one has sense enough to stop blaming the other for what their forefathers did
can't forgive you because you inherited privileges and i inherited resentments , well just fu****k ...
tha's american black and white rapport in 2016 it boggles the mind
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Calm down dude. It's a good show so far. It's better than watching another cop show.
shareNo. Its good because now we have a rising generation of racists who actually try to justify slavery and Jim Crow days. Especially now since the rise of Trump. So don't come here spitting out nonsense that these shows shouldn't come out now.
These shows help keep the racist bigots away
Centuries ago? I remember marching for civil rights in the 1960s and I would do it again today. These shows need to be seen so the younger generations can see what really happened. During the past few years, racists have again started to believe they have the right to insult and degrade anyone they feel superior to. White trash doesn't take well to the facts. BTW, I am a white woman.
shareWell said . I am a white male from Savannah Ga very familiar to the stories of the 60's where black men were strung up to an oak tree very often and for doing nothing but being black . These "new school racist " are white trash who don't know what real racism looks like . They are uneducated and have no idea of their very recent history. People think that black people started being free after the emancipation proclamation. My only regret for this show is I see hardly any black actors . Wtf is with that ? Two black people on the cover art and then two black people at the bottom of the cast list with 30 white people on top? What is the story of the trouble slaveowners went through to retreave their property ? Sadly it looks that way
shareBTW, I am a white woman.An uneducated and bigoted one. share
No, never been racist in my life and I have more than a college degree. I stand up for what is right and that was and still is equal rights. My children and grandchildren are colorblind to race and my great grands will also. That's the only way this country won't implode.
Would you call a group of people who you disagreed with "black trash" then? Or do you reserve that only for white people? (= racism)
shareYeah, people use that term.
And the civil rights fights are still not over.
I marched in Ferguson for the rights of the people in that city that were getting ticketed and pulled over had their cars towed at 3am by some of the most racist cops in the St Louis county area. I grew up in the area and still live 1.5 miles from West Florissant near Canfield and watch the cops hog tie young men after a school fight, throw men with no sagging pants, just carrying groceries home, over their police car for a forced search, had a woman cop say to her buddy that she was married to a black man and her buddy cop say "don't joke about that, that's not even funny".
Don't try and say discrimination is over for blacks in our areas because if you say that you are a liar. Don't try and claim there are no civil rights fights left because then it's obvious you are either very young or completely ignorant of whats happening in various neighborhoods.
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Was that meant for someone else? Seems totally unrelated to what I said.
shareNo it's meant for you.
You were trying to go down the false equivalency of black racism to white racism when blacks are the ones taking the brunt of racism and it's harm in this society.
How to create an atheist: read the bible twice cover to cover.
I was just pointing out how odd it is that someone would be willing to call a group of people they disagree with "white trash", but presumably would never dare to say "black trash" in any circumstance. You agree that that's a real thing, right? It's socially acceptable to talk that way about whites, but not blacks, no matter the situation.
You don't solve racism, inequality, and whatever else, by bringing others down. That just creates more resentment on all sides, as you can see recently in the news and social media. It's not getting better. This plan of attack isn't working...
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Dear mam...you must realise what you are responding to...doesn't fully understand...the language they understand isn't completely English...if you know what I'm referring to...heh.
In other words...stop feeding the wildlife. Thank you mam.
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This show is needed in a hateful year in which millions of people are going after bigots like Trump. This generation needs a wake up call. So shut it.
shareSlavery officially ended in this country in 1865. It wasn't "centuries ago". That's about 151 years ago. It's not that long ago in the scheme of things. If you thing about it, we're only about two grannies removed from it.
shareYour time line is very wrong ans your understanding of blacks' struggle is also deficient. Most blacks oppose segregation, which was legal until recently. In fact, everyone in the US over 50 years old can remember being raised before it became illegal. That also means that the majority of adults were raised and taught that segregation was the norm and was morally good (the way we see legal behavior).
shareWhite resentment over slavery?
Are you serious?
We (white people) deserve all the crap we get for slavery........
Who are you to be bitter about it?
The Civil War ended about 150 years ago!
"Your SOUTHERN (I'm assuming) ancestors" are long gone!
I don't blame them or you for what they did.
In my opinion, nobody should.
Not everyone who fought and died in the Civil War, on the Confederate side owned slaves nor do I believe they all supported the legalized institution of American Slavery. Man of them, probably were just defending their homelands from what they believed was treasonous government over-reach by the U.S. Government which at that time (and still doesn't) had no federal power to override the rights of each individual state. States Rights, which is Constitutional. I don't condone slavery, just that the U.S. Government broke the law in overstepping it's legal authorities.
It's weird that people don't see it as a chapter in American or world history or even just stories to be told rather than an attack on anyone. I don't suddenly hate all Germans when I watch 'The Strain' . It's also educational it goes into more detail , I think these stories are important as they stop us forgetting and deter us from repeating mistakes from our history.
shareLadymooneclispse;
Honestly, you sound so damn ignorant., Slavery is a major part of American history,and a huge part of it. Why should it be ignored just because you don't want to deal with it? And racism has mainly been kept alive in this country to this day because white people refused to let it die,and they never have (look at how trumpf whipped up racism and played on people's prejudices to run for office.) So don't even try to put that on black people--white people started that s***, and they still have it going on to this day. White folks have kept handing down racism like old clothes from one generations to the next, so it's y'all's damn fault, since you benefitted from it more than anyone else.