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**Hugh** · Yesterday, 10:19

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Yes, a black lady who has been robbed is sat at a railway station. A white woman takes pity on her and is allowed to accompany her on a train to her wealthy aunt, on the basis she will be allowed to live there.

Basically, the black lady’s sense of superiority overcomes any lame ‘discrimination’ that clearly exists, and she easily gets a job which enables her to earn decent money.

🤭😂😂😂

It is such a wildly ridiculous idea that it’s laughable - things simply were not like that back that back in the day. The drama trivialises what these people went through and actually weakens their case for equality at the end of the day - was this the intended consequence of our attempted re-education?

If so, it has failed spectacularly.

It was the white lady who was robbed, and she is helped by the black lady, who bought her train ticket to New York, which is why she was invited to stay at the white lady's relatives house.

You state

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things simply were not like that back that back in the day

Julian Fellowes, the writer, did some research, and would beg to differ - which is why he included this in the storyline.

https://www.columbian.com/news/2022/...te-we-checked/

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Fellowes had read “Black Gotham,” in which author Carla Peterson traces her family history to the Black elite of 19th century New York. “I had no idea, really, that there was a prosperous, upper-middle-class Black community in New York towards the end of the 19th century, based not in Harlem, but in Brooklyn,” Fellowes said. “And these were affluent people with status and businesses and families.”

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Peggy is not based on a single historical figure but is inspired by a number of real Black female trailblazers of the era. These include the renowned author and activist Ida B. Wells, who documented lynchings across the country and became one of the founders of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People; Julia C. Collins, a Black teacher and writer from Pennsylvania whose incomplete book, “The Curse of Caste; or the Slave Bride,” is often cited as the first novel published by a Black American woman; and Susan McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York.

“Julian was intentional about drawing from multiple women’s lives in order to create a fictional character who embodies the spirit of the 1880s for young Black women in the elite,” Dunbar said.

Fellowes said he likes to have real-life models for his fictional characters because it allows him to defend them as truth: “I needed to know that a girl like Peggy existed and wanted to be a novelist, and she did.”