We live in a country in which someone can be called
a "racist" for using ("the N-word") to say it's a bad
word!

******************

HUCK FINN is probably the most anti-racist book in the world and given the time period, it's even more an accomplishment. I mean, the main character -- a 10 year old white kid -- decides that he'd rather "go to hell" by defying everything he's been taught to believe is "right" because he won't betray his friend, despite his race. Yet, "liberals" were trying to ban this book as if it were MEIN KAMPF. It's heartbreaking. I mean, I've been the black guy fighting to get BIRTH OF A NATION shown at the campus theatre because of its historical and educational value, but at least I knew the opposition toward it, while I believed misguided, was at least reasonable (it is a racist film), but the anti-FINN crowd were, well, yes FUCKING IDIOTS!

Spike Lee thinks a minstrel show would be a huge success in a White market. What more do you need to know about his stance on these matters?

**********************

Well, maybe not a huge success...

What If the south gained independance.

The South may have been forced to industialize if trade with the north was not normalized after the seperation.

Whether the South would have declined into third world status would (err could) have depended on the following factors (1) LEADERSHIP, if progressive leaders invested the new nations resources into useful things like education and economic development (2) the eventual end to slavery (3) the openess of the southern society to the imigration boom from Europe that was to occur soon. After all it was the hard work and inginuity of those new imigrants (like my own Irish ancestors) that built this great nation :-)

god ,i miss that series.......

had the chance to meet vince stone at a chicago con way back when.hes far from racist,and in the marvel series,they even changed the captain into a black woman.

by the way,his cover to the first issue is the very first piece of comic art i ever bought.

As noted, Southern Pride would be a tremendous hurdle, and in this case something that would, I think, doom the Confederacy to poverty and starvation, worse and worse as time went by.

Spike Lee thinks a minstrel show would be a huge success in a White market. What more do you need to know about his stance on these matters?

***************************************

I just realized that you may be talking about a particular Spike Lee film because I have never heard Spike say this, and I follow his career.  And if you're talking about his movie "Bamboozled," the hit minstrel show and its subsequent success is not the focus of this film.  If you seen the movie...

Emphasis mine.

I always liked the Captain Confederacy series - I'll bet Harry Turtledove took some ideas from it for sure. One thing to conside is the global impact of a split United States. Whether or not the South could keep it's act together, the lack of the USA as a "global superpower" would have dramatic reprocussions on the rest of history; Germany would have had more free reign in the world war, China and the USSR would have been the dominant global superpowers on the planet. Would the North have tried to seize more land from Canada... would we even have gotten Alaska and Hawaii? Would the South have pushed down into Mexico for more resources?

Nothing is set into stone. Though slavery was becoming an outmoded way of life back then, regardless of whether the South recognized it or not, the ramifications of the succession and splitting of the Union would have drastically changed the course of global history.

And being a white man, I just dote on minstrel shows. Huzzah! Huzzah!