historical beefs

Obviously I haven't put forth the energy to make a historical beefs post in a long time, but various ideas kept passing through my mind of ones I wanted to do. So I'm just going post a lot of half-assed ones here as I get the time, and anyone interested can take advantage. Queen Nanny was a...

Y'all know about the USA and the USSR and their "Space Race" - who would be the first to put a man in space, the first to orbit the Earth, the first to reach the moon. Less often told is the racial component to the rivalry - the fight to see who would put the first Black man in space. The USA...

The first African leader to defeat colonialism and lead his people to independence The African Formation Kwame Nkrumah grew up under in a village under British rule. His papa worked in the city so he was raised by strong African women. Kwame would have lived a simple life, but a German...

I approach this different than previous beefs. W.E.B. DuBois been a hero since my youth, and so Booker T. Washington had to be the bad guy. Now that I know better I see that life is more complex than that, so I tried to endow this beef with the respect for both legends that they deserve. So...

This one about the Greens and the Blues, a chariot-racing rivalry that lasted 500 years and ended in absolute disaster. This beef was so insane that I'm gonna convert it to modern times just to emphasize the fukkery... So imagine it's 2078, the American empire done collapsed when the West...