White America’s biggest nightmare: Black men who violently sow disillusionment
By Kevin B. Blackistone July 9 at 7:41 PM
Americas suddenly rapacious appetite for theater about the slave era whet first in 2013 by that years winner of the Academy Award for best picture, 12 Years A Slave, and fed most recently by the Broadway hit Hamilton will be satisfied again in October. Hollywood is scheduled to serve us The Birth of a Nation, Nate Parkers biopic of Nat Turner, the slave who led what turned out to be the deadliest slave rebellion in American history.
Turner experienced a vision that God chose him to lead enslaved Africans and their progeny to freedom. He sought to do Gods work by cutting a swath to the heavens painted with the blood of every white person he and his gang encountered after nightfall on Aug. 21, 1831. By midday the next day, Turners gang had slaughtered upward of 60 white people in rural Virginia. White mobs responded by killing at least 200 slaves. Turner was eventually captured. After his execution, he was skinned.
Slavery was outlawed 34 years later, or 151 years ago. White America neednt sweat another Nat Turner, another slave revolt.
But it still must worry about the aggrieved black man.
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