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Still Benefited said:
Im not going to watch it. But what makes it different than any other slavery or civil rights movies black folks been supporting all these years? Maybe not even supporting,but not boycotting at least. Based on the anti black women agenda Ive been seeing as of late in terms of film. I dont know if this boycott is in good faith.


Would hate to hitch my wagon to a bunch of weirdos:manny:
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HOW ABOUT YOU RESEARCH THESE PPL
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The Woman King’s History Is Worse Than I Thought​

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Viola Davis in The Woman King.(Sony Pictures/Trailer image via YouTube)
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By DAN MCLAUGHLIN
September 16, 2022 10:42 AM
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In writing about the new film The Woman King, I assumed from the trailer and advance press releases that the central plot of the film would focus on the West African kingdom of Dahomey’s defeat and colonization by France in two wars in 1890 and 1892, thus whitewashing Dahomey’s prior, longstanding history as the most extreme example of a state built on the enslavement of free people among its own neighbors — a history in which its female soldiers, the “Amazons,” played a willing and culpable part. Well, Kyle Smith has seen the movie, and its history is even worse:

Even leaving aside the extensive slave-raiding and slave-trading history of Dahomey prior to 1823, this is comical: Oyo collapsed in 1835, and Ghezo used the opportunity created by the fragmentation of the empire to capture more slaves from Oyo’s now-unprotected population. Warring to enslave his neighbors was the main source of Ghezo’s wealth. He stoutly resisted every British entreaty and threat to get him to abandon slave-trading and get into the palm-oil business (which, it should be noted, was itself largely produced on slave plantations within West Africa). It is true enough that Oyo was a larger, once-mighty state that exacted tribute and sometimes worse from Dahomey, but that was all normal in West African politics — and had been since before the Europeans arrived in the 1440s.

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A movie in which Ghezo and his female soldiers are anti-slavery figures in the 1820s makes about as much sense as a movie painting John C. Calhoun as an abolitionist.

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A movie in which Ghezo and his female soldiers are anti-slavery figures in the 1820s makes about as much sense as a movie painting John C. Calhoun as an abolitionist.
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You’re really quoting the “national review” as a militant pro-black bro? :mjpls:

Y’all think we don’t see your agenda
 
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10bandz said:
We posting national review articles now :mjlol:
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The right wingers and cacs are definitely latching on to the slavery angle to attack the movie when they’re really just mad it’s a big budget all black movie produced by Jews trying to capitalize off racial animus like Black Panther.

It doesn’t change the fact this shyt is corny to try and sanitize one of the worse slave trading empires in Africa because they had a female leader.
 
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