The gravity of the atrocities skipped over by #womanking can't be put into words. The #BoycottWomanKing protest should be an awakening for #ados Black Americans as to the GAPS in their own identity. "The African Trade" by History is a good primer. WATCH:
The #WomanKing Dahomey traded about 3 mill of our ancestors but other countries & their progeny have been able to live on a flat blackness that Black Americans have blindly anchored. There still were 9 mill more sold up the African coast for hundreds of years. #BoycottWomanKing
Part of the reason this isn’t resonating as it should is first there is no video. And we now learn visually. And also we don’t grasp the scale. Next time you’re at a packed NFL stadium look around. Imagine all those people enslaved in one place. Multiply that by 200 times.
This is plainly awful. Watch all 45 minutes of the History channel documentary above. What has been done here w/ #WomanKing is beyond our collective understanding of disrespect. #boycottwomanking
As I showed in 2018 “African Americans are more than just Africans in America”. There was no context of Blackness or being African among the Dahomey. Now it’s being sold to us in theaters 🎭 through flat blackness and seeing slavers as freedom fighters. eurweb.com/2018/06/09/afr…
We do not understand the depths of the relationships of African slavers and white slavers that they traded with regularly. The Africans sent their children to live with white slavers in their homes in England while they schooled. We have it all backwards.
Make this clip make sense with the quote by Viola Davis to Variety trying to make #womanking about woman’s rights? "Part of the story that hit me as an artist was these women were unwanted…" It was so much more than this…
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