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Reparations: Blackwashing Slavery-Will Africa reimburse American taxpayers?
Frontpagemagazine ^ | December 28, 2022 | Larry Elder

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?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; US: California; US: Massachusetts; US: New York
KEYWORDS: california; massachusetts; newyork; reparations
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To: SJackson; Lazamataz
"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."

So what?

This distortion is no different from the mendacity broadcast constantly in the news media, Hollywood, from politicians, everywhere. There's a narrative; everything is made to fit the narrative. Truth be damned!

And worst of all, millions of people are unintelligent enough to accept the narrative and believe the propaganda. They are the useful idiots who endanger all of us.

Contempt for truth--truth for its own sake--is the evil most fundamental to the decadence of Western Civilization and the greatest threat to the USA and the general welfare.

The embrace and acceptance of TRUTH--TRUTH for its own sake--wherever and however it presents itself--is the foundation of Western Civilization, the source of all the miraculous benefits Western Civilization has brought to the world, the sine qua non of science, and the pathway to enlightenment.

We are truly caught in a Manichaean struggle between the forces of evil, darkness, mendacity, and propaganda on the one hand--and on the other hand, all that is good: light, truth, benevolence, wisdom, compassion, self-awareness, and enlightenment.

Truth for its own sake is the pathway to all that is good. We must take that pathway.

21 posted on 12/28/2022 8:58:10 AM PST by Savage Beast (Americans DESPISE the corrupt elites, their media toadies and their corruption of the US government!)
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To: dfwgator

The Hills Have Eyes (1977 film)

“Wes Craven based the film’s script on the legend of Scottish cannibal Sawney Bean,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hills_Have_Eyes_(1977_film)


22 posted on 12/28/2022 9:02:50 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: SJackson

I’ve often wondered where the 300,000 dead and many wounded Union vets (mostly white) fit into the equation.


23 posted on 12/28/2022 9:35:31 AM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: SJackson

“The Woman King” is the black version of”Birth of a Nation”
Both were a abomination of history and both were applauded by Hollywood.


24 posted on 12/28/2022 9:36:17 AM PST by RedMonqey
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To: Waverunner

😁👍. The lies continue to be YUGE. Did you survive the cold snap okay? Grand and great grands in Ft Walton area. It was colder there than at our place in Reno the other day. Weather eh?


25 posted on 12/28/2022 9:39:44 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: SJackson

What about the thousands of blacks who owned slaves. Do their descendants get to pay reparations?


26 posted on 12/28/2022 9:50:39 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: rktman

Me too! And I believe they forgot to mention that most of the history of slavery in the US occurred when the US was a colony of England. So, let ‘em go ask Harry and Megyn for the shakedown.


27 posted on 12/28/2022 10:11:29 AM PST by Segovia
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To: rktman
My kin folk fought on the Union side so i suppose i should expect a check sometime soon?

Hell, I would just be satisfied with a simple thank you note.

28 posted on 12/28/2022 10:12:36 AM PST by pfflier
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To: SJackson

It’s just another socialist wealth redistribution scheme which is a reoccurring theme with libtard controlled government


29 posted on 12/28/2022 10:13:29 AM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: pfflier

Yeah, don’t hold your breath.


30 posted on 12/28/2022 10:13:39 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: pfflier

Also, there’s that “Livingston, is that you?” question. It was widely accepted that Livingston was one of the first whites to make it to the interior of Africa, where most of the slave came from. When a white man was found in the interior of Africa, it was naturally assumed that it had to be the missing Livingston, (and correctly). NO whites, (except for Arab slavers) ventured into Africa, the main reason we for centuries called it “the dark continent”.


31 posted on 12/28/2022 10:16:31 AM PST by Segovia
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
There are still Negroes who are slavers. Only now they go by the name drug dealer.

One major way to get a girl into prostitution is to get her addicted to drugs. Her pimp/dealer is her slave master.

32 posted on 12/28/2022 10:29:09 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: rktman

Night got down to 43, 65 during the day...
a veritable ice age.


33 posted on 12/28/2022 10:43:06 AM PST by Waverunner
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To: Waverunner

As i recall we had water freeze at 40 when we lived in Canaveral Groves. ⛄😂👍


34 posted on 12/28/2022 10:46:53 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: SJackson

One of my ancestors was captain of an infantry company from Ohio. He was captured and spent 18 months in Andersonville prison. He miraculously survived to return to his home and lived a long-ish life, perpetuating the name and brand.

I am pretty sure that he would say that he had already closed any accounts payable several generations ago. He would also be able to tell the reperationists where to stick the invoice.


35 posted on 12/28/2022 2:09:35 PM PST by T. Rustin Noone (This is exactly the same )
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To: SJackson

If we start calling Joe Biden a modern day slave trader will he close the border?

Asking for a friend…


36 posted on 12/28/2022 3:10:12 PM PST by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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To: T. Rustin Noone

I have a great grandfather who was captured near Springfield MO and spent time in a Confederate prison camp. They said he was not the same person after that he was before.

From Iowa, where the highest number of Union volunteers per-capita came from. I’m sure the taxes to pay for reparations will be pro-rated based on these factors.


37 posted on 12/28/2022 3:35:04 PM PST by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: Midwesterner53

I’ve often wondered where the 300,000 dead and many wounded Union vets (mostly white) fit into the equation.

Nowhere. The great sacrifice is mostly ignored. This is what the Confederate monuments removal is all about, denigrate the foe and you denigrate the victory.


38 posted on 12/28/2022 8:22:41 PM PST by rxh4n1
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To: Altura Ct.
Sure and how far back do we go? Every group of people has practiced slavery at one time or another.

You are right. I think King Nebuchadnezzar owes me reparations.

39 posted on 01/03/2023 6:18:28 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: rktman

So did mine. I want my money. NOW!! I’ll take cash or check.


40 posted on 01/25/2023 12:05:46 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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