i have no problem with this stuff being spelled out in an article bc it’s important history people esp north americans should be aware of but like how did u not think about this until now. how did u think stede bonnet a white man got so rich in the fucking caribbean. how do u think anyone in history got rich. how are u only just realizing this

anyway the whole fucking story is fictional for fucks sake. they took his namesake and that’s it. even if they didn’t and it was some random made-up white rich man from barbados he would’ve made his wealth the same exact way as stede bonnet. this show never claimed historical accuracy and if u saw blackbeard being played by a māori dude in full leather with a motley crew of genial characters and assumed it was all true to history then i’m sorry but that’s on u.

pirates were horrible horrible people who were extremely implicit in the atlantic slave trade. as were the characters in bridgerton and jane austen novels and most historical fiction that depicts the lives of rich people. stede bonnet and edward teach are burning in hell and i enjoy seeing entirely fictional versions of them kiss on my tv. those two things can coexist and while im not here to police anyones reaction to that i feel like if i as a black person from the caribbean, directly descended from slaves, can be cool with that then white people shouldn’t have to thoughtlessly guilt-trip themselves into hating the show