C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
Tags: alternate reality, satire, alternate history

Plot synopsis:
=== War and Rebellion ===
In an alternate United States history, the "Confederate States of America" (C.S.A.) is formed after Republican Abraham Lincoln is elected president in the 1860 election, due to fears over the dissolution of the ownership of Negroes. They engage with the Union in "The War of Northern Aggression." Following the Union victory in the Battle of Antietam, President Lincoln issued a revolutionary proclamation entitled the "Emancipation Proclamation," but—within this fictionalized reality—the proclamation failed.
Confederate President Jefferson Davis took this opportunity to counteract the proclamation and send politician Judah P. Benjamin to persuade the military and financial aid of the United Kingdom and France to the Confederacy in their fight against the Union. Benjamin also promoted the "Southern Cause of States' Rights" which proclaims Southerners have the right to have private property, the abolition of slavery remaining unaddressed. Eventually after the success of Benjamin's gambit, the Confederates—with the aid of British and French forces—were able to win the Battle of Gettysburg, capture Washington, D.C. and take over the White House a few months later, but Lincoln escapes.
Union General Ulysses S. Grant surrenders to Confederate General Robert E. Lee on April 9, 1864 (exactly a year before the date of Lee's actual surrender to Grant at Appomattox), effectively ending the Civil War.
The hunt for the now-deposed President Lincoln (now disguised in blackface) and abolitionist Harriet Tubman is undertaken, and both are eventually captured, which became the prime subject of D. W. Griffith's fictional 1915 silent film The Hunt for Dishonest Abe, and shows a humorous reenactment of Lincoln and Tubman's failed escape attempt. Lincoln was quickly tried for war crimes against the Confederacy and was imprisoned in Fortress Monroe, Virginia, where he watched the execution of Tubman from his cell. In 1866, Lincoln—frail and gaunt from his two-year sentence—is fully pardoned by President Davis and exiled to Canada, where he remains until he dies in June 1905 at the age of 96, almost entirely forgotten in history.
Shortly before his death, Lincoln laments, in an interview, not having made the Civil War a battle to end slavery, and blames himself for it. He also hopes that the colored people of the C.S.A. will gain independence, but regrets he will not live long enough to see it happen.
=== Reconstruction ===
After the war ended, the victory of the South was the cause of immense celebration, with many plantations welcoming back the troops to a now "blessed and triumphant" lifestyle. After Confederate soldiers moved further east, raiding New York City and Boston, the Confederacy—with the stroke of a pen—annexes the remainder of the United States, renames the nation the "Confederate States of America" (C.S.A.), and abolishes all of the old American symbols and replaces them with their own: the national flag is changed from the traditional U.S. Flag to the Confederate Naval Jack flag; the Confederate States of America dollar becomes the dominant currency of the C.S.A.; and the national anthem is changed from "The Star-Spangled Banner" to "Dixie", ironically, written by a northerner named Dan Emmett.
After leaving Richmond, Virginia and moving into the White House, President Davis faces difficulty in inducing the North to accept the institution of slavery, until John Ambrose Fauntroy I introduces a tax that is alleviated by the purchase of slaves, and Samuel A. Cartwright, whose theories dominate Confederate medical science, "discovers" a fictional disease that causes slaves to run away, and declares slaves livestock. Following the success of the new slave tax, 20,000 former U.S. citizens—most of them being Northerners (e.g., Wendell Phillips, Mark Twain, Susan B. Anthony, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and William Lloyd Garrison, among others)—lead an exodus from the C.S.A. to Canada. Canada, along with the Russian colony of Alaska, was able to remain free from the C.S.A. and soon became home to refugee abolitionists, runaway slaves, and former citizens of the United States and, thanks to the efforts of both Garrison and Frederick Douglass in convincing the Canadian Parliament and Canadian Prime Minister John A. Macdonald to not repatriate escaped slaves, together formed an organization known as the "National Association for the Advancement of Chattel People" (N.A.A.C.P.). The strong hatred of the N.A.A.C.P., Canada, and the "Red Canadian Injustice" within the C.S.A. dates back to the end of the War of Northern Aggression and the beginning of Reconstruction for the massive loss of their slaves, who sought Canada as both freedom and asylum from the C.S.A.
Along with the Red Canadian Injustice, Reconstruction efforts for the C.S.A. prove to be a challenge with pioneers, gold-prospectors, the Plain Indians—which a war against them lasted almost 30 years—and the railroad expanding from the South into the Great Plains. In the 1890s, a decision is taken to enslave the West Coast Chinese migrant workers, too. In 1895, the government of the C.S.A., which does not separate the Church from the State out of fear for more foreign slaves and their religious beliefs in contrast to the C.S.A., outlaws all non-Christian religions. After much debate, the Roman Catholic Church is classified as a Christian religion. Originally, Judaism, too, is outlawed, but a dying Jefferson Davis, citing the crucial contribution of the Jewish Judah P. Benjamin, persuades Congress to allow some Jews to remain on a reservation (similar to a Native American reservation) on Long Island.
=== A "Splendid Little War" ===
By the beginning of the 20th century, the Confederate States of America finished Reconstruction and began an expansionist campaign to claim the Western Hemisphere as part of their "Golden Circle", with only Alaska and Canada remaining free from being client states of the CSA. They began with Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the rest of the Caribbean islands during the fictionalized version of the Spanish–American War, then move on to completely annex Mexico and Central America. Following the annexation of Mexico the Confederates adopted the "Jim Crow" system to divide the Confederates—who now rule the country—and the Mexicans. Confederates saw that the conquest of South America would be the nation's "prized piece", but it would prove difficult due to the intensity of the will of the South Americans to stay independent from the invading Confederates. The Confederates believed in an ordained and divine quest, reminiscent of Manifest Destiny, for world domination.
=== The Great Depression and World War II ===
In 1929, with Mexico, Central, and South America, Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and the Caribbean all part of their "growing empire" from their expansionist campaign, the C.S.A. was hit by 1929 economic crash, forcing them to retreat into isolationism, but extricates itself by reviving the trans-Atlantic slave trade with new African slaves provided by collaborationist African leaders who enslave members of other tribes and sell at the Confederate state of Liberia.
During the Second World War, the C.S.A. became friendly with Nazi Germany and their ideologies calling them "biologically correct", but disagreed with Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution" for a pure Aryan continent, hoping to exploit non-white races as a slave labor force instead of murdering them. The C.S.A. agrees to remain neutral in any German war. However, the C.S.A. becomes hostile with Japan, seeing its expansionism as a threat to the entire Pacific Coast Region. On the morning of December 7, 1941 (the date of the actual attack on Pearl Harbor), the C.S.A. strikes two Japanese naval bases and bombs the city of Kyoto as the opening blow in a war against the "Yellow Peril". Confederate leaders assume that the C.S.A. will easily win the war, judging the Japanese as small and weak in physical stature, as well as not being white, but—just like their campaign in South America—the Japanese proved to be an intense challenge to defeat.
During the war, the C.S.A. military suffers massive losses and tries to solve its manpower shortages by recruiting a black regiment by promising slaves their freedom if they would fight (which is later revealed to be a lie with no explanation). This regiment receives the most dangerous missions and suffers high casualties, but earns the respect of white officers. The war is won by using the atomic bomb. The European war still ends in the Nazis' defeat, albeit with many more Soviet casualties. Stalin expands control over all Continental Europe and supports the holding of their colonies with exception to the British Empire (thanks to Canada).
=== Cold war with Canada ===
During the 1950s, the C.S.A. suffers the effects of "Abolitionism" (analogous to Communism and the Red Scare) and violent attacks from a splinter group of the N.A.A.C.P. called the "John Brown Underground" (J.B.U.). To safeguard and counter the fears of Abolitionism and the Red Canadian Injustice, the C.S.A. erects a border barrier wall along the entire Canada–US border called the "Cotton Curtain" (lampooning the real-life Iron Curtain) to divide the C.S.A. from Canada. After a series of abolitionist attacks and the C.S.A.'s neutrality in the Second World War and being friendly with Nazi Germany, Mainland Europe and their overseas colonies—now under Soviet control—impose international trade sanctions and embargoes on the C.S.A., forcing the nation into isolation once again leaving South Africa the only country maintaining diplomatic relations with the C.S.A. The success of the embargo on the C.S.A. leads some to question the need for slavery.
=== A New Frontier ===
In the 1960 election, when only 29 percent of voters approve of slavery, Roman Catholic Republican John F. Kennedy is elected C.S.A. president over Democrat Richard Nixon. However, foreign policy such as the Newfoundland Missile Crisis distracts him, and he is unable to implement his domestic agenda. Also throughout the 1960s, the Vietnam War is briefly mentioned as an "expansionist campaign" of the C.S.A., also women demanded the right to have a voice and Canada became the pop cultural capital of the world with the contributions of African Americans and other exiles (Elvis Presley, after being jailed for some time, flees there), whereas the C.S.A.'s culture never evolves beyond its propaganda. Canada also continuously defeats the C.S.A. in the Olympic Games, which brought the Confederate congress to include slaves in sports, forming their very first Confederate States Football League championship games. This illustrated the time to break the color barrier and support Kennedy's movement to emancipate. But before this movement was set into motion, President Kennedy was assassinated. Kennedy's assassination completely dismantled the hopes of emancipation and for women to get the vote. Slaves throughout the country rebelled in fury and retaliation, including the Watts Riots, as a direct result of Kennedy's assassination. In the 1970s, the Social Revolution was crushed and many feared that the "Golden Age" of the Confederate States of America was over.
=== Modern day ===
By the start of the 1980s and the 1990s, the Confederacy has largely put away such self-doubt of the years beginning with the death of President Kennedy and continued throughout the 1970s. Democratic Senator John Ambrose Fauntroy V presents programs returning the Confederacy to its former Southern Protestant Biblical values, such as husbands beating their wives and intolerance of homosexuals. The documentarians ask Senator (and presidential candidate) Fauntroy V to arrange an interview with some slaves, but it becomes clear that the slaves have been coached. However, they are clandestinely passed a note instructing them to meet a black man named Big Sam (earlier identified as the fugitive leader of the J.B.U.—John Brown Underground). Big Sam, in turn, leads them to Horace, a lifelong slave of Fauntroy's, who alleges Fauntroy V is part black, sharing a common slave ancestor. The racial accusations cost Fauntroy V the presidential election; a month later, the senator commits suicide on December 12, 2002. Narration then states DNA tests were "negative".
=== Expanded timeline ===
The film's official website contains an expanded timeline of the history of the C.S.A., which features events not covered in the documentary. The timeline identifies President William McKinley's assassin as an abolitionist rather than Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist. The C.S.A. manages to advance in space technology by smuggling Nazi scientists out of Germany before its annexation by the Soviet Union. Rosa Parks is identified as a Canadian terrorist and a member of the J.B.U.. The failed assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II occurs in New York City instead of St. Peter's Square, with the assailant being a Southern Baptist who is subsequently executed for the crime. The Gulf War has Kuwait as C.S.A. territory. In 1995, Tim McVeigh blows up the Jefferson Memorial instead of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City; his execution is broadcast on pay-per-view. The War in Afghanistan and subsequent American interventions in the Middle East are known as the "1st and 2nd Crusades", with the goal of eradicating the "Muslim Menace" by overthrowing the Islamic governments, taking over their oil production, and converting their entire populace to Christianity.

Review: In an alternate universe, Jefferson Davis became president, the  Confederates won the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was not shot and killed  but becomes an escapee in blackface and dies in disgrace in Canada (not  before recording his last words in 1905 -- a little anachronistic since  sound in films did not occur until the 1920s), and slavery is alive and  well and becoming one with technology.
The interviews, voice overs, and lingering camera shots of a still photograph were all spot-on.My favorite part was the multiple level satire of films from the early 20th century showing events from the 19th: a silent movie about Lincoln's capture, a 50s school educational film about the superiority of whites, and a Hollywood war epic about the CSA's wars in South America.
It shows an alternate history for if the confederates won the civil war.The style is like a documentary you'd see on the History Channel with fake commercial breaks that show popular products.
Probably one of the most disturbing things is that you find out a lot of these products are based on real items (Niggerhair cigarettes and Darky toothpaste come to mind).As with any good satire, there needs to be an element of truth which is definitely explored in CSA.I watched the movie with a friend who just got his MA in History, focusing on the civil war.
Told like a Ken Burns Civil War documentary, CSA really gives a great look at what "might have been." From Jefferson Davis as the President of the United States and his exile of Abraham Lincoln to Canada, to The President meeting with Chancellor Hitler to discuss enslaving the Jewish race as opposed to destroying it to JFK's assasination because of his wanting to end slavery, the film touched on many of the United States' milestone moments told through this alternate universe.
The movie is pretty interesting, it shows what it could be like if the south won the civil war and slavery still persisted today.
CSA is about the history of the Confederate States of America - from the moment they won the Civil War to today.
In the faux documentary "CSA," we learn what the twentieth century would have been like if the South had won the Civil War. The Confederate States of America became a nation teeming with racism and misogyny.As a Southerner, I found the film pretty offensive.
If the South had won, I could see things like they depicted, as could of have happened.I did a bit of fact checking on some of the scenario's that they put through and learned a bit of factual civil war history - that isn't often taught or known about.Makes you think - what if.....
To this end, the film's makers leave out all sorts of inconvenient historical trends and incidents like industrialism (the real reason why slavery became economically nonviable), Marxism, World War I, the expansion of the British Empire, the rise of Arab petropower and the Cold War. Russia doesn't even get a look-in.
And no, deliberately making the Confederates unrealistically expansionist so that the filmmakers could turn the Japanese (whose army murdered tens of millions of Asians before and during WWII) and the Central and South Americans (who have their own obsessions with skin color and racial ancestry) into blameless victims of Confederate aggression doesn't make the stereotypes any more palatable.As the Shaw quote that starts off the film notes, you'd better make people laugh while you're telling them the truth.
"The South would never have tried to dominate the North", "The war wasn't really about slavery" -- none of those things matter.What would our country be like today if the idea that one race should hold dominion over others had survived?
and the angle of documentary just fell flat....oh well can't win them all....perhaps next time the directors will drop his private agenda and concentrate on making a film exciting and interesting to the viewer....the commercials thrown in were something only worthy of a SNL skit and implying slaves as property in a insurance commercial might get a cheap laugh but doesn't make this movie worth seeing....honestly my teenagers have put better commercials together in their class....really a shame...the idea was great but the movie just falls flat.
This is a very involving, at times disturbing, and funny in a way that you cringe &/or chuckle film, where writer/director Kevin Willmott makes a striking attack at the racism that is unfortunately inherent in American history.
By making the film a rip on the kinds of PBS documentaries that Ken Burns has carved his niche in, and by turning up everything that has happened since the end of the Civil War, he has a lot to shoot at target-wise in a completely, unabashedly ironic sense.
It's not very high-budgeted, but it is authentic in that the acting is exactly how one of these TV documentaries would be like, heavy-set narrator and all.But at the same time of this kind of very sincere, dramatic approach to telling the history of this disturbing alternate world of 150 years of history, there is a very un-hinged approach to dealing with the racism of it, which is extreme considering, well, the slave-owning, Aryan-dominated confederacy won.
The epilogue to the film, involving the REAL products and places that displayed the harsh racism lasting until as late as twenty years ago (one of them has a mention in the film Ghost World by the way), puts into perspective what has occurred; you may even feel a little weird about having laughed at what happened, what does that say about me or the other people in the theater?
There was something bothersome about "The Confederate States of America" evident even in its trailer, but as a Civil War buff and armchair historian, I was nonetheless enthusiastic about this "mockumentary" currently making the Indie theater circuit.The plot should be obvious enough: in an "alternate universe," the Confederacy won the Civil War, conquered the Northern States and continued into history in the U.S.'s place, as covered in this "controversial tell-all British documentary." Slavery continues into the 21st Century, as many interviewees and even a Presidential candidate try to apologize for, justify, and even glorify the Confederacy's misdeeds.For any fan of what historians call "counterfactuals" (essentially historical "What If's"), "C.S.A." seems built on a great premise, and one that has indeed been debated over since the fall of the real Confederacy in 1865.
Sadly, this audience member felt that these mistakes could have been avoided and that the film, as a whole, could have been better-handled.The end product of filmmaker Willmott's venture is considerably uneven; at times the "documentary" approach looks and feels very professional, enough to rank with a "PBS" Frontline production.
In other areas, the production value of C.S.A. seems almost sophomoric: poor sound and film quality, and poorly synthesized music make this mockumentary look as if it came out in 1992.The blaring flaw in this film, for me, though, was first in its mishandling of the historical complexities of the Civil War and all surrounding issues, and secondly and most importantly its apparent indecision over just what "sort" of mockumentary "it" wanted to be: serious satire of spoofy comedy?
It just didn't fit, and in my opinion, represents a wasted opportunity on the part of Kevin Willmott to make "The Confederate States of America" a worthwhile, valid and even intellectual piece of satirical American Cinema.Though ultimately silly and nowhere near "consequential" a film as it could have been (one gets the feeling that any number of historically-inclined filmmakers could have made a far superior and far more stirring and dramatic film out of the subject matter), it does keep your attention as a small "plot" of sorts develops around the Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Fauntroy --scion of a Confederate dynasty-- as a political "bombshell" explodes during his candidacy.
I've always loved alternative histories (i.e., "The Man in the High Castle", the first 2 seasons of "Sliders," etc.) and this movie is another great example of this genre.The movie is presented as a BBC documentary written in the present day of this "parallel universe" about the history of North America starting when the South won the American Civil War. The thing that makes this movie so great is how realistic it is.
With a few minor exceptions, the screenplay resists the temptation to caricaturize its characters and instead presents them in a way that is believable and historically appropriate.This movie also does a very good job of making slavery more "real" to a modern audience by placing it in a more familiar setting.
On the contrary, it makes the situation worse by filling peoples heads with blatant mis-reporting of history and human attitudes towards slavery.Don't even get me started on him attributing the slash and burn policy of Sherman to Genereal Lee...and also his gross misrepresentation of George Washington.His assertion in the film is that if the South would have won the War of Northern Aggression (AKA the American Civil War) that we (as a nation) would still be condoning slavery...not out of a need for inexpensive labor (which is a fallacy in its self), but out of a sentiment for the ways of the Old South.
To make it even more atrocious, his speculation of a Confederate peace pact with Nazi Germany is even more nonsensical.This man may have studied film, but he is no student of history...and is obviously no scholar on human behavior, technology's influence on the American Industrial Revolution or other issues that would have caused the natural extinction of slavery in the US...even without the War of Northern Aggression.
Being a big fan of alternative histories, I was excited to see "CSA: The Confederate States of America" at the Denver International Film Festival this year.
Okay, okay, so since Rodney King, they edit out the beating up part, but still ...It's shocking to realize that that aspect of our present day society would probably be exactly the as under a slave-holding society: Whites will always beat up blacks, no matter what moral principle is guiding the country: be it Racism, Nazim, capitalist, democratic or whatever, that is a constant.Actually, this is point that is driven home: Our present day world is not that different than if the South hád won!It is still far better to be white than black in America.
a much longer version of this is on myspace.The documentary is what if the South had won The Civil War, but it is actually a thinly disguised ruse on the part of Lee and Director Kevin Willmott to inculcate into the minds of the viewers that whites are racist by nature.
Presented as a history channel style documentary, detailing an alternative history of the United States, or in this case the Confederate States, as though the south had won the American Civil War.The production is about as exciting and innovative as a standard historical documentary.
The concept, what if the south had won the civil war, what would popular culture be like, is an intriguing notion, no?Well, I thought so, but what a soggy leaden thing this movie was.
In other words, the filmmaker should have interviewed historians, sociologists, and other intellectuals who could have drawn some reasonable projection on what modern day America would have looked like had the south won the war.The fact that the filmmaker concluded that there would have been one country was so ludicrous, he lost all credibility.Therefore, the mock commercials that ran through this movie were not only unfunny - but totally stupid given that no reality had been adequately established in this movie.The various vignettes (lincoln being a black-faced escapee) were dull, stupid, reaching and clearly designed for the filmmakers hopes of becoming a staff writer on SNL or Mad TV.Spike Lee is a very talented filmmaker and should not be faulted for producing this movie.
This movie was not funny in the least, had no real insight to what ACTUALLY would have happened if the south won the war, and is a totally gigantic WHO CARES??????.
No doubt popular ideas in the alternative reality worlds of Massachusetts, Vermont and Minnesota but laughable among thinking people.Gross historical error - the movie portrays Central and South America as not knowing slavery.
But without citing anything specific--because the entire thing is one of THE most gawdawful wastes of time (like, 90 minutes of my life that I'll never get back--fortunately I was cleaning the living room while watching, so it wasn't a complete loss) I've ever experienced--in addition to being completely unwatchable, I DID NOT realize til the end of this film during the credits that it was another Spike Lee debacle-- DUH.
You know I don't want to crap all over a movie, told from an African-American perspective, about what the world would be like if the South had won the civil war.
To illustrate an alternative reality of the past hundred years as if the Confederacy had won the U.S. Civil War (with foreign help) through a faux British TV documentary, writer/director Kevin Willmott makes excellent use of detailed research and archival footage to seamlessly create dead-on parodies of decades of movie styles (D.W. Griffith here makes "The Yankee" instead of "The Clansman", to a 1930's style hagiographic bio pic of Jefferson Davis, to a World War II-style movie here set in a war to take over South America as the Confederates dreamed to do, etc.).
What shocks me, is that many people who've seen CSA, and, have found it 'offensive,' don't know that the man who created this (Kevin Willmott) happens to be black.If you read the opening quote from George Bernard Shaw('If you're going to tel people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you'), then, you'll understand, that Mr.Willmott grasped this, when he crafted this picture.In the past decade, or so, we've had a horrible injustice done - a 'hypersensitivity,'(called 'politically correct) that has made any REAL discussions almost taboo.Mr. Willmott ISN'T afraid to show this alternate history, and, he understands that the common language is humor.The sad thing, is that, some people who've watched this (and, many did not know Mr Willmott's ethnicity),thought it was some 'horrid' film made by whites, and, didn't understand what Mr. Willmott was trying to show - instead, only viewing it FOR the caricature that it is.I give Mr. Willmott MUCH credit, for making this film..
CSA certainly tells a lot of truth, but it's more disturbing than funny, a mockumentary so dark and so thoughtful that it winds up being rather depressing.This fake documentary tells the history of a United States in which the Confederate States won the Civil War and slavery continues to this day.
We've replaced the blatant immorality of slavery with the status quo.If the North had truly won the War and the Peace, then the Slaves would have gotten their 40 acres and a mule and things would be a lot better today.Maybe this movie would have been more interesting if it were about the real unrealized USA, if Lincoln weren't assassinated..
Yes, This is a documentary, really a mock-documentary.In 89 minutes(including 4 of credits) we are shown a British TV movie (including commercials) of what might have happened if the \South had actually won the American Civil War.There are many truths in this movie, more than we realize just from watching, There are many allusions to certain historical events, that while being satirized are quite true when you figure what they are really saying.This film was released only in a few theatres across the country & to this reviewer thats a crying shame.
However they are done in such a humorous way it is quite funny, Both of us ( Senior Citizens by the way) thoroughly enjoyed this.As I said at the beginning Docuimentaries are hard to rate, the acting & production values can be not of high quality, the people in the film are supposed to be playing real life characters and are not actors playing a role.That being my opinion,here are my ratings.*** out of 4----88 points out of 100 ----- IMDb 8 out of 10/see this movie & let me know if you agree..
This is one of the first mockumentary movie I saw when I was a Teenager at a time when I was very interested in the American Civil War. The idea of a parallel reality was very new to me at the time so when I watched this film in early 2010 I very quickly became interested in the concept of an alternative reality in what would later become a genreknown as "Alternative history" and C.S.A: The Confederate States of America was the Spear of what captivated me into that genre.
The film tells how the Confederates won the Civil War (which ended in 1864 in this timeline) and how they brought slavery back to the North.
The real history is deliberately twisted to show viewers what America might have been like today if the South had won the Civil War. Fake historians recite fake commentaries; fake visuals show action that never occurred or is taken out of context; actors act out characters that never lived.
As the title suggests, this elaborate satire has as it's premise that the South won the Civil War, overran the Union States- and then incorporated them into an uber-Confederacy where slavery is not only preserved but expanded.
These ads have a very nasty kick- at the end of the film we are told that nearly all of the products advertised were real and that some still exist.Over 140 years of American history is gleefully reimagined with the CSA conquering all of Central and South America, using the slave trade to end the Great Depression, and allying with Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.
Director Kevin Willmott ends the film with an epilogue stating that "the following are actually part of American history." Every single racist product that I thought was too outlandish to be true was actually real.