"The Space Traders" - Derrick Bell (1994)

"The Space Traders" is a science fiction short story by Derrick Bell published in 1992. This is an adaption for television made in 1994 by director Reginald Hudlin and writer Trey Ellis as part of the HBO anthology TV movie Cosmic Slop, which presented three Twilight Zone style stories from a black perspective. Full vid of Cosmic Slop: https://youtu.be/IfBpjkgn5pY The premise is, Extraterrestrials arrive on Earth and offer to the United States gold, safe nuclear power and other technological advances, in exchange for the government's handing over of all black US citizens. The US Government has only days to respond to the offer. Derrick Albert Bell Jr. (November 6, 1930 – October 5, 2011) was an American lawyer, professor, and civil rights activist. In 1971, he became the first tenured African-American professor of law at Harvard Law School, and he is often credited as one of the originators of critical race theory along with Richard Delgado, Charles Lawrence, Mari Matsuda, and Patricia Williams. He was a visiting professor at New York University School of Law from 1991 until his death. He wrote science/speculative fiction as well as legal and pedagogical theory. Selected Bibliography: Race, Racism and American Law (1973, Little Brown & Co.; 6th ed., 2008) Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform (Oxford University Press, 2004) Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth (Bloomsbury, 2002) Afrolantica Legacies (Third World Press, 1998) Constitutional Conflicts (Anderson Press, 1997) Gospel Choirs: Psalms of Survival in an Alien Land Called Home (1996) Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protestor (Beacon Press, 1994) Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism (1992) And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice (1987) If you are a copyright holder that would like something removed from my channel please message me on YouTube & I will respond so you do not need to file a DMCA Copyright Takedown Request with YouTube. Thank You. Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.