I couldn't pinpoint for a while what I felt was very wrong with #Bridgeton, and all the "forced racial correctness" of several #Netflix productions.

As I read yesterday about the Demerara massacre again (where British official brutally suppressed a non-violent protest in Guyana's sugar plantations exactly 200 years ago), I could finally pinpoint what is wrong.

Productions like Bridgeton are a shameful attempt of whitewashing the sins of colonialism and racism. Nothing less, nothing more.

They depict this ideal late-18th century Britain as a place where folks of African or Caribbean descent held noble titles, intermingle with white nobility, and even the queen herself is a racial mix.

Nothing could be further away from reality.

At that time, Britain was still all in with the lucrative slave trade, it used to indulge in what later was formalized into Kipling's racist doctrine of "the superior white man educating the inferior black man", and it used some among the most violent repression strategies of the time to suppress any form of dissent in its colonies.

Given the popularity of such productions with the young, I'm afraid that we're raising a generation that will underestimate the atrocities committed by their ancestors.

Can you imagine a Netflix production that takes place in the 1940s and it shows Jews and Nazi Germans peacefully coexisting and intermingling with one another? If we would be outraged at such a distortion of German history, why do we allow it when it comes to British history?