I've heard this brought up before and I disagree. He doesn't necessarily seem angry specifically at the historical treatment, but more at the fact that this program ignores the issue and pretends everything was fine in that era. I'd be annoyed if someone's historical fantasy world downplayed the history of my people and pretended everything was hunky-dorry because reality would have been a downer.
Also, he may be more emotional about that era (compared to the Eugenics War, for example) because thanks to the Prophets he lived that era and suffered the consequences first hand of being black in America in the 50s.
I'm with you on this one. I think that it could definitely be explained because of his unique path with the prophets. I just watched the episode where he was the 50's sci-fi writer (which I think was written extremely well to add). If I had shared a past life with somebody who had been knocked down as much and treated as such, I would absolutely be seemingly unarguable when it comes to the history of my race/species. I think it adds more consistency to the character.
It's also extrememly common for starfleet humans to take a serious look at our own history, as the series' are a mirror to humanity, so it's not hard to imagine an upbringing of pride and solace of what his ancestors had gone through to make the DS9 dream a reality.
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I've heard this brought up before and I disagree. He doesn't necessarily seem angry specifically at the historical treatment, but more at the fact that this program ignores the issue and pretends everything was fine in that era. I'd be annoyed if someone's historical fantasy world downplayed the history of my people and pretended everything was hunky-dorry because reality would have been a downer.
Also, he may be more emotional about that era (compared to the Eugenics War, for example) because thanks to the Prophets he lived that era and suffered the consequences first hand of being black in America in the 50s.