Thinky Thoughts
Jun. 25th, 2013 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valarltdThis is probably the only thing I'll post about the whole Paula Deen thing.
So, I write a dark future series where the US has disunited. In the Confederated States, blacks are below being second class citizens. They are actively denied work, money and basic needs. They are erased from all media. And the Hamite Revolution Front is fighting this.
At one point, the Hamites make such a nuisance of themselves that my main character is sent to commit genocide. With full resources at his command, he wipes out all 2 million black inhabitants of Atlanta.
He executes the leaders on live television, dressed as a black-winged angel to invoke divine authority, using a device that lets him kill by simply tapping the forehead.
There are street parties and celebrations, people going out at night and enjoying the safe, clean city. This too is played up in the media.
Some of my first readers reacted with horror. "People won't be having fireworks and barbecues and street dances. They'll be revolting against the government that would do this."
I look at the defenders of Paula Deen and know I'm right. These are the people who would be out there ORGANIZING the street parties, and late night concerts in the park. They'd be congratulating themselves on how much nicer their city is now and how the other cities should follow their lead and make it a truly Christian (that word can be read "white") country again.
So, I write a dark future series where the US has disunited. In the Confederated States, blacks are below being second class citizens. They are actively denied work, money and basic needs. They are erased from all media. And the Hamite Revolution Front is fighting this.
At one point, the Hamites make such a nuisance of themselves that my main character is sent to commit genocide. With full resources at his command, he wipes out all 2 million black inhabitants of Atlanta.
He executes the leaders on live television, dressed as a black-winged angel to invoke divine authority, using a device that lets him kill by simply tapping the forehead.
There are street parties and celebrations, people going out at night and enjoying the safe, clean city. This too is played up in the media.
Some of my first readers reacted with horror. "People won't be having fireworks and barbecues and street dances. They'll be revolting against the government that would do this."
I look at the defenders of Paula Deen and know I'm right. These are the people who would be out there ORGANIZING the street parties, and late night concerts in the park. They'd be congratulating themselves on how much nicer their city is now and how the other cities should follow their lead and make it a truly Christian (that word can be read "white") country again.
