Danny Glover's Haiti film lacked 'white heroes', producers said

[WaveGang]

Very interesting shyt

I'm led to believe that if the french took Haiti they would of have also took America. So America basically financed the war in Haiti and when Haiti won the US stole all the loot. I'm pretty sure the French had set up shop in Southern US which went to butter as soon as the French Lost. I cant remember his name but the guy who stole Toussaints loot has universities or something named after him, very celebrated indeed.

US actor Danny Glover, who plans an epic next year on Haitian independence hero Toussaint-Louverture, said he slaved to raise funds for the movie because financiers complained there were no white heroes.
"Producers said 'It's a nice project, a great project... where are the white heroes?'" he told the press during a stay in Paris this month for a seminar on film.

"I couldn't get the money here, I couldn't get the money in Britain. I went to everybody. You wouldn't believe the number of producers based in Europe, and in the States, that I went to," he said.





D"The first question you get, is 'Is it a black film?' All of them agree, it's not going to do good in Europe, it's not going to do good in Japan.

"Somebody has to prove that to be a lie!", he said. "Maybe I'll have the chance to prove it."

"Toussaint," Glover's first project as film director, is about Francois Dominique Toussaint Louverture (1743-1803), a former slave and one of the fathers of Haiti's independence from France in 1804, making it the first black nation to throw off imperial rule and become a republic.

The uprising he led was bloodily put down in 1802 by 20,000 soldiers dispatched to the Caribbean by Napoleon Bonaparte, who then re-established slavery after its ban by the leaders of the French Revolution.

Due to be shot in Venezuela early next year, the film will star Don Cheadle, Mos Def, Wesley Snipes and Angela Bassett.

http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/pe...Haiti-film-lacked-white-heroes-producers-said

 

[WaveGang]

On Jefferson

Jefferson called upon Congress to abolish trade between the United States and what after 1804 was the independent country of Haiti. He argued that France believed it still owned the island. In short, he denied that Haitian revolutionaries had the same right to independence and autonomy that he claimed for American patriots. And consequently, in 1805 and finally in 1806, trade was formally shut down between the United States and Haiti, which decimated the already very weak Haitian economy. And of course, Jefferson then argued this was an example of what happens when Africans are allowed to govern themselves: economic devastation, caused in large part by his own economic policies.

 

[Ricky Church]

white heroes...

Cac's

 

[KingDanz]

 

[Sinnerman]

the movie is finally getting done

 

[DaPresident]

It ain't dead... I'm tellin you, it's more alive than ever!!! Scary part is that it's usually hidden but coming into light more and more!



"Where are the white heroes?" nikka,

 

[AITheAnswerAI]

Entitled fukks

 

[Jone2three45]

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[Chris.B]

Let's keep it 100%...White folks did more for Haiti than any militant when the earth quake hit.

Sean Penn wrote millions of checks for that nation. Drop the Chip you have on your shoulder

 

[WaveGang]

Let's keep it 100%...White folks did more for Haiti than any militant when they earth quake hit.

Sean Penn wrote millions of checks for that nation. Drop the Chip you have on your shoulder

trolls got coli inna frenzy

 

[Jone2three45]

.

 

[Ego Noir]

What white heroes.

Haitians put them slaveowner heads on a stick

 

[Chris.B]

trolls got coli inna frenzy

dispute what I'm saying...There is still no records of the money Wyclef took for his foundation.

 

[Premeditated]

I actually wouldn't have mind The French taking over America. But not at the expense of seeing Haiti lose the revolutionary war.

Better architect, finer women than the Anglos.

 

[Jone2three45]

At the Haitians building fences and structures with the dead bodies of their beloved people during the war to help fight off the French. Powerful magic.