I apologize for a bit of a delay this time around. @Othello@hexbear.net will be taking a hiatus from Hexbear to redirect focus to local organizing efforts. For the time being, I will be taking over the posting of EM POC weekly threads.
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Ahistorical too. Nat Turner showed white America at the time that they were not needed for liberation. Nice to have white people on your side, but absolutely not necessary. Many of the union soldiers were ex-slaves/ freed men that were looking to end slavery.
Black Americans freed themselves, despite a white onslaught.
Sometimes I wonder if the fetishization of John Brown was because the whites could better identify with him than with Nat Turner even though Nat Turner's actions were more successful. Not to dunk on JB, he did an objectively good thing too
You're right about Nat Turner, if he was white there would've been several movies about him made across the decades. The man spearheaded the change in rhetoric among whites and destroyed the 2 myths: that slaves loved being slaves and slaves weren't smart enough to stage a rebellion let alone be successful in it.
Depending on who you read, some people credit his rebellion as one of the events that led to the civil war.
He was a goddamn legend.
Can't make many movies with JB because he unfortunately wasn't as successful. Still badass tho