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I meant white savior my mistake

Both - in general making a story during this era of American history is odd and what’s even worse is trying to portray white people as saviors for setting black people free (with no land, no home to go to, and no rights)

Gotcha ty for replying!

It's really is both. This white savior complex has been shown for years throughout media to paint white people as some type of angel towards black people even though all they did was oppress us more. For example, him letting them "be free" doesn't fix anything they don't have anywhere to go nor most likely where they're family are because they've been separated. This author's first mistake was making the character white.

This author is a Korean author writing about slavery, natives, and war and turning it into a love story between the two.

For me it’s mainly the choice to make a white mc for this Era when it’s strictly integral to indigenous and black history.

The white saviour part is just a nail in the coffin especially the extra details of “He was perfect, handsome and rich, but lost everything to the war”, slaves had nothing and still lost much more during this time but were framed to feel bad for the privileged losing stuff for doing the “right thing” thing when the right thing is just basic human rights which is fighting against slavery. I also don’t like how the author showed his soldiers being mainly white when it was mostly black and indigenous people fighting for their lives during this time period.

The whole sarcastic/joke of “humble slave” is just disgusting.

I think the root of the issue is that periods of genocide/slavery should not be used as settings unless you’re intending to be historically accurate and respectful to those who were affected by said periods.

As a black person who grew in Canada I learned about black and indigenous history in Both America and Canada and to watch be used a backdrop for romance is honestly insane, these things are still very recent for a lot of people subject wise, to use to promote media centering a “white mans suffering” is just insane.

This makes sense. I see how the mc’s “good” deed is an extreme oversimplification and is clearly only done to build his character and not put care into showing the perspectives that have been erased from history ty for explaining

This is worded very well. Now I see how much the author clearly just wanted to zoom through exposition for the novelty of having a western setting. I also noticed how the mc’s father even says he’s doing this for his family’s reputation which makes it even worse.