Here's Why Some of the Black Community Is Driving #BoycottWomanKing on Social Media

[DigitalDrifter]

Anyone planning on going to see this fantasy?

Who's driving the #BoycottWomanKing trend on social media in protest of the Viola Davis-starring historical epic that hit theaters today? Perhaps surprisingly, it's not the same people who dropped racist memes in reaction to the first look at Halle Bailey in Disney's live-action "The Little Mermaid" trailer.

Here's Why Some of the Black Community Is Driving #BoycottWomanKing on Social Media

 

[DigitalDrifter]

"Time to Boycott the Woman King movie. The film is about the Dahomey & Benin that traded slaves into the transatlantic… This may be the most offensive film to Black Americans in 40-50 years," wrote Los Angeles attorney and producer Antonio Moore.

 

[irosie91]

what is the objection?

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Truth hurts.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

what is the objection?

They don't like the fact that the 'Dahomey' tribe, who sold other Africans into slavery, has been whitewashed.

 

[irosie91]

They don't like the fact that the 'Dahomey' tribe, who sold other Africans into slavery, has been whitewashed.

IMVO (in my vaunted opinion) ---these are times that try mens' souls and no time to MAKE MOVIE
PRODUCTIONS of this or that group's dirty laundry

 

[Resnic]

what is the objection?

The story is about dahomey. A black nation based and founded by blacks to enslave other blacks and sell them to others. And the woman king is actually a ruthless leader of the kings female guard that gathered blacks to be enslaved, and protected the nation that when it wasn't selling their own kind they were sacrificing them.

And this "woman king" did not even fight against it. She kept with the program even after white Europeans said they don't want to buy slaves anymore.

It's all a fake woke lie.

The Woman King’s History Is Worse Than I Thought | National Review

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.

www.nationalreview.com

 

[BackAgain]

Black people sold black people into slavery. Then other people, including white slave traders, resold those poor people.

Whites and Jews have been enslaved.

In some places, slavery still occurs.

 

[irosie91]

Black people sold black people into slavery. Then other people, including white slave traders, resold those poor people.

Whites and Jews have been enslaved.

In some places, slavery still occurs.

all true----but this is no time to BELABOR the filth of
the history of mankind, ESPECIALLY as the filth refers
to this or that GROUP. It is as idiotic as CRITICAL RACE THEORY

 

[BackAgain]

all true----but this is no time to BELABOR the filth of
the history of mankind, ESPECIALLY as the filth refers
to this or that GROUP. It is as idiotic as CRITICAL RACE THEORY

Nah. I’m just noting (to make the claims in a fair and even and honest field) that slavery is an abomination. But it’s not just something white oriole have been guilty of.

 

[whitehall]

The term "boycott" indicates a basically ignorant political agenda on the right or the left.