Conservatives Deeply Outraged by Science Fiction Story From 1992
Derrick Bell's story "The Space Traders" is one of science fiction's scariest thought experiments — because of what it reveals about human nature. It's a misanthropic tale in which aliens arrive on Earth and offer America the solution to all our problems, in exchange for all of our black people. For Bell, who spent years of his career fighting segregation in America, it seemed all too plausible that Americans might choose to trade minorities for wealth and alien technology.
In any case, this story — which was made into an HBO special in the early 1990s, see video above — somehow managed to avoid getting on the radar of the 24/7 outrage machine, until now. Conservatives are seizing on the story as proof that Bell was racist against white people — and thus, President Obama must be racist too, because he embraced Bell once in 1990. Obviously, this is the sort of fake controversy that cable news runs on nowadays — but also, it's apparently the product of people who live in some sort of alternate universe where many people aren't alive nowadays who lived through segregation.
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