Posted on 12/28/2022 7:13:37 AM PST by SJackson
When it comes to the absurdity of American taxpayers giving “reparations” to black descendants of slaves, it’s hard to limit the number of objections. Apart from the fact that American slavery, though horrific, was legal; that it ended 157 years ago; that the government did not own slaves, the private sector did; that most Southerners did not own slaves; that nearly all slave owners were Democrats — so why should non-Democrats pay?; that hundreds of thousands of white Northerners lost their lives and suffered serious injuries fighting in the Civil War that ended slavery; and that today, as conservative writer Michael Medved puts it, only about 5% of whites bear “a generational guilt” to slavery — there’s the role Africa itself played.
Take the 2022 movie “The Woman King,” starring Viola Davis, about African female warriors. It portrays white slavers as villains and the female warriors as antislavery avengers, and the film claims it is “Inspired by true events.” IMDB describes its plot:
“A historical epic inspired by true events that took place in The Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.”
Inspired by true events? Really?
There was a band of warrior women in Africa called Dahomey. True, they were fierce, feared, and bloodthirsty fighters. But they used that ferocity to kill and conquer other Africans for sale to slave traders. The trans-Atlantic African and the Arab African slave trade could not have occurred without the complicity of African chiefs, who sold conquered Africans to European and Arab slavers.
In the film, white slavers are the enemy when, in reality, they were business partners with the “women kings.”
Critic Robert Daniels, who mostly praised the film, said: “You might wonder how (director Gina) Prince-Bythewood can shape a tale centering the Agojie warriors — an all-woman group of soldiers known as the Amazons, sworn to honor and sisterhood — hailing from the West African kingdom of Dahomey when one considers their hand in perpetuating the transatlantic slave trade.”
A review on Last Movie Outpost, called “‘The Woman King’ Historical Embarrassment,” puts it this way: “The movie has been set up as having a historical basis, telling the story of the real-life Kingdom of Dahomey in the 18th and 19th centuries. … In reality, Dahomey was a notorious slave kingdom, and not the Pan-African freedom fighters as the movie presents them. They enslaved and murdered hundreds of thousands from other tribes and sold them into the slave trade.
“Dahomey was renowned as the ‘Black Sparta,’ and was a fiercely militaristic society bent on domination and conquest. Their soldiers struck fear into other tribes all along what is still known as the Slave Coast, as they captured tribespeople from enemy tribes and sold them as slaves.
“The Dahomey women fought to protect their slave trade. Even worse for those who struggle with reality, the Amazons were formed from among the king’s ‘third class’ wives. These were those considered insufficiently beautiful to share his bed and who had not borne children. Awkward!”
About the film, “History vs. Hollywood” writes: “In real life, Dahomey is much more the villains than the heroes. … They conquered neighboring African states and took their citizens as slaves, selling many in the Atlantic slave trade in exchange for items like rifles, tobacco, and alcohol. Many of the slaves they sold ended up in America. … The business of slavery is what brought Dahomey most of its wealth. … There are accounts of Dahomey warriors conducting slave raids on villages where they cut the heads off of the elderly and ripped the bottom jaw bones off others. During the raids, they’d burn the villages to the ground. Those who they let live, including the children, were taken captive, and sold as slaves.”
So, will Africa reimburse American reparations-paying taxpayers?
My kin folk fought on the Union side so i suppose i should expect a check sometime soon?
They can give them money but only if they renounce their citizenship and leave America forever.
“The Dahomey women fought to protect their slave trade. Even worse for those who struggle with reality, the Amazons were formed from among the king’s ‘third class’ wives. These were those considered insufficiently beautiful to share his bed and who had not borne children. Awkward!”
That might explain why the Amazons made a straight up offer to the Foreign Legion boys after the French had crushed the Dahomian army. The Amazon’s leaders went to the Legion officers and told them, ‘we will serve your men. March with them, fight with them, feed and bath them, have sex with them. The only thing we won’t do is wash their clothes.’ The enlisted Legion boys thought it a good bargain.
My ancestors paid at Antietam and Gettysburg- sorry, it’s bad enough that this violently untrustworthy subculture is still here. They should pay us - and I’m only speaking of the participants of the “twerking thug culture”
Slave owner’s bought Lemons
Anything to keep the hate alive. Blacks figure it out and the democrat party is finished.
There you go.
Freed blacks also owned slave at about the same rate whites did.
Some native American tribes owned slaves. (And practice cannibalism.)
Sure and how far back do we go? Every group of people has practiced slavery at one time or another.
And I’m 3rd generation American. So, no one gets a piece of me! Share cropper grandparents were quite poor.
“”They can give them money but only if they renounce their citizenship and leave America forever.””
OR ONLY when these supposed descendants of slavery swear off crime and become civilized members of our society. We won’t even have to ask them to prove they are actual descendants as behaving like decent human beings is already impossible or they would have cleaned up their act many years ago!
2001
The French invasion of Dahomey was motivated and justified by French trying to stop the slave trade!
Dahomey was recently renamed to Benin, because of the majority of citizens wanted to erase the name associated with the slavery!
**Inspired by true events**
I remember a movie of this nature about a modern family in the American South West who killed and ate people.
The only “true events” family I found doing this was the Sawney Bean family of Scotland in the 1500s.
After whites get reimbursed for crime and welfare payments we’ll see how the balance sheets are
In the Mandatory African american history classes at Georgia universities, I was amazed that classes taught by African American instructors, with textbooks by African American professors, always had very vocal young African American students arguing that it couldn’t be true that Africans sold other Africans into slavery. They just knew that white slaver armies invaded peaceful Africa and took everyone they encountered into slavery. They wouldn’t acknowledge that the best place a male African slave could end up was in America, not that slavery was ever a good thing, but in Brazil or mexico you were worked to death in a few years and in the Muslim world you were castrated. I, being one of the few people of European descent in the class, just sat back and watched the show every class. The professor asked me why I didn’t contribute in class, even though I got 100 on every test. I said that whatever answer I gave it would antagonize most of the class. This was the 80’s and already self censoring was needed to keep my car unkeyed. I will say that some of the ladies in the class were more broad minded than the gentlemen. I even accepted a few “study dates”, that usually just ended up as one on one tutoring sessions. Good Times..
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