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Can someone remind me of the name of a short story I read once? I think it was by Ray Bradbury. In it, all the black people in America get fed up with Jim Crow and go and land on Mars, painstakingly putting together a functional futuristic society. White earthlings rejoice and look like dickheads. Anyway, like 200 years later, a bunch of rag-tag white people show up at Black people Mars and explain they've managed to destroy the earth in a horrific nuclear holocaust. Initially all the black Martians let them in and reconstitute Jim Crow, but on Mars, and all the white people are ushers and porters and poo poo. Then some black Martian dude goes all "hey this is pretty bad" and in the end in a postracial society begins to flourish Someone please remind me of the name of this story I've been looking for it for years
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ReagaNOMNOMicks posted:"The Other Foot" short story in The illustrated Man, 1951. thank you so much man that has been driving me nuts for ages. I always forget how much Bradbury owned in terms of demonstrating the power of analogy in hard science fiction, especially for a dude writing about race relations in 1951.
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