The Woman King EXPOSED! Propaganda LIES VS Historical TRUTH 

Bro let them make a movie about queen N'zinga and the same people gonna say that she owned slaves and that was a slavery .or a nouvie about Massa moussa they gonna say the same thing he was slaver who take 600 slaves and all his kingdom gold to the Arabs , a movie about Samory toure they gonna say he was a Muslim who conquered and murdered Africans who dint wanna to convert to Islam and that his best allies were the english who provided him with guns , and it will never stop they always gonna have something negative to say about African great kingdoms ,kings and Africans who fought the colonizers .this guy is a pure hater plus he doesn't know the real story of the Dahomey.

@@kaderdao1335 You're an idiot who doesn't know history.

@@kaderdao1335 And u do? Also u did live back then? U know the truth. Mostly the truth is kinda in the grey area, nor good nor bad, something in the middle. But hey think whatever, u have ur movie, u can celebrate how they succeeded at least with one to push their propaganda trough and if theres one ill be there are many others as you. As with cockroaches. Its a sad thing. But u wont realize it. Never will. U cant belive the bad things, cause then it would be like destroying ur universe, ur life even, u cant have that. So What i know is that sure enough many African kingdoms did deal in slavery, their were the one that gathered up the slaves for the evil whites and sold them. Those freedom loving African Kings. But hey again believe ur fairy tale and be happy.

@@kaderdao1335 Yes indeed, but you see what has not been taught is the concept of slavery within sub_saharan Africa. Slavery was not as dehumanizing , mechanical and racist as it was done in the West. People names were not taken by them they were not "beasts" in the eye of their captors. They could marry , pray to their gods, keep their identity, integrate to a certain degree their captors society and even earn freedom. Based on that I would like to believe that the African slave traders never imagined in their wildest dreams, that the captives were going to go through literal hell for 400+ years , you can read the account of an African slave trader king writing to the king of Portugal asking him for his family to be returned in king Leopold tears. The media has made it out as if mother's were selling their children and that Africans has no humanity towards their own. That being said, in no.way shape or form am I apologizing for any form of slavery and the cruelty that ensues. So since Africans are not the victors we do not get to decide the narrative, and vilified and lumped in with the West pointing a finger saying see we did the same.

give it time maybe they will. or they will make a black Marie Antoinette movie

Yes because you see, the Japanese were the benevolent benefactors to common Chinese citizen by tending to their needs unlike their western oppressors

I was gonna make that comparison as well dude XD or how bout stalin getting along and being friendly with political opponents

@@MyFunnyVids888 or literally any dictator being ok with political opponents. Or mongols not commiting mass rapes and killings of innocents during their conquest. There are so many options lol

Spot on

Lowkey exposing their not-so-hidden racism against asians.

They did the same thing with Pray recently. It's a shittier Predator, but done better by a female Native American.

I'm a 5th or 6th generation prisoner if war trapped here, we do want this shit either. Those of us who know the truth are informing others not to support such trash

@@EyeofValor I pirated that with my parents, made absolutely no sense and I forgot i watched it within days

Yes, it is for African Americans who no longer read or know their history. And written by two pail women.

@@EyeofValor Prey is easily one of the best Predator movies.

Thanks for the Link, will watch it afterwards

Exactly the reason why Black Panther works and Woman King won't because atleast Panther is honest of being a fantasy and not based off history. Its not distorting anything to possibly create confusion. Its just making something new.

@ME B well unfortunately BP movie was pushing the same agenda as the The Woman King fantasy or not..and sadly there's folks over here that really think that the history in BP is real..very sad..

@@Nemy360 equality or feminism isnt a bad agenda to begin with. But if it goes too far to sacrifice something like the truth or other values then yeah its flawed. If ur talking about the 2nd film, it was great how they transitioned the story and knowing marvel they were setting up more characters (female or otherwise) It didnt feel forced for the most part. T'challa only had a sister, mother and her female warriors... what do people expect the successor to be

@@MSSBy Your first sentence shows how much you have yet to learn how profoundly erroneous it is.

I felt the same way about Spiderverse, even though it had a Black protagonist. Miles Morales was awesome. It's very telling if you need a character to be the same race as you in order for you to empathize with them...

Men identify with the actions and essence of the character - the popularity of Anime in black American communities is a testament to that. Woke men and women can only identify with the looks.

the analogy to Amazons I believe was observed and made by either the British or French at the time. this movie didnt come up with that

@@budgiecat9039 Not just with the Agoji, the Amazon comparison has been happening with female warriors and warrior groups for about 3000 years now....before the British or French were even a thing. ;o) I was speaking more specifically about the creators, promoters, and actors of this film. Many of them in interviews have been incorrectly making an Amazon comparison. And I'm sorry, but no...the Agoji and the Amazons are nothing alike. Not in mythology, not in reality, and certainly not in whatever one wants to call this film.

@@unarealtaragionevole Yeah but I'm saying the producers and actors are specifically using that comparison based on what actual European slave buyers described them as (or one of them at least as its documented him saying it) upon first viewing them

They would be boycotted and attacked too they had slaves and partook in the slave trade so.theyre evil and not suitable to be shown in western media.

Ethiopia would be incredibly interesting as well.

All those empires also had slaves and participated in the internal Arab slave trade. You can't run away from the fact that most empires had slaves.

@@tvs9978 No one's trying too. What were saying is that if Hollywood had the balls to accurately portray these cultures it would be fantastic stuff. Personally speaking, i find the geopolitics around Ethiopia is incredibly fascinating. Especially the Italo-Ethiopian War.

@@tvs9978 They definitely did! Its very important to not shy away from historical fact, but these medieval West African civilizations are extremely interesting. A great movie or historical tv show could easily be made about one of the empires while still being faithful to the real history of Africa.

While I do agree with your concept I don't think the Dark Phoenix is a good example. They basically replied with "your criticism is just opinion so I can dismiss it". Yes of course nobody likes the same thing, for example I don't like bad movies, how does that reply even address the flaws of the movie?

There's a similar one happening on Russian TV these days.

If only it could be a true story

Well, we did fight the wrong enemy.( General Patton) College Students were burning books about degeneracy we see in the West today.

Someone did make that movie, it was pretty intense.

That's called Birth of a Nation my friend.

The film is about the Oyo empire fighting the Dahomey kingdom. Plus no matter what it would have been boycotted still I'm sure. They should just avoid African stories and stick to Eurocentric ones Africa is too controversial for the West.

Just a general thing: try to speak of african states. The word tribe is realy ... problematic for a lot oof reasons and in this region especially, we are talking about highly organized states with standing armies and everything ...

@@admirekashiri9879 The primary reason fir the boycott is that they took historical slavers and pretended they were anti slavery. There are plenty of African stories that few in the west would boycott. Make a movie about the rise of the Solomonic dynasty, it's actually interesting and wouldn't be controversial in the west.

@@admirekashiri9879 i hope onw day africa stop being controversial, there are lot of cool stories there but saddly it doesn't seem possible to tell them.

@@JP-rf8rr The film is about the Dahomey fighting the Oyo empire. Dahomey was anti-slavery when it come to its population the Fon people, but they didn't care about anyone else. Oyo enslaved and oppressed the Dahomey kingdom until they declined and dissolved, then Dahomey took revenge with cruelty. I wish they showed this but, this was pg13 and the conflict they show with Oyo was sufficient though it could have Bern handled better. So they were freedom fighters for themselves but cruel to their enemies snd people who were easy pickings for them. Solomonic Dynasty it would be boycotted they sold slaves too. Trust me anything African aside from modern poverty films will be boycotted from now on.

Same here

@@metatronyt Holy shit, was not expecting a response.

The trailer is misleading though. It'd not about what is seems. The evil they're referring to is ge Oyo empire not Europeans seeing as they are trading slaves Aith them in the story.

@@admirekashiri9879 True, making the Dahomey heroes against slavery though was still a monstrous thing to do in my opinion. I can't support this movie in the same way I don't support media glorifying the US founding fathers. My ancestry is too tied into these histories for me to look at it as just fun media.

@@RebelWithoutABoss They aren't Dahomey only cares about itself, they were against slavery for their people they didn't care about everyone else.

Yoruba people sold Fon people into slavery you know that right?

If beats me my friend. All I can do is tell the true story. 👍🏻

In before the African History enthusiastic movie shill comes in and tell you youre a poo poo head for thinking this way because you didn't see the movie like he did.

viola davies is the producer and the lead actress. she is also the one , who claims, that its a true story. the plot thickens....

I think the movie would have been fine if they acually made it historically accurate with all the bad things they did aswell.

Yes, and it’s blatantly racist against whites

You can't appropriate your own culture.

One would think so, but apparently the self-evident hypocritical double standard was not obvious enough.

@@adorabell4253 He means with White characters, in European settings

@@uptown_rider8078 Yes. Those movies are made by white people from those cultures.

Gun beats spear.

@@oz_jones on wikipedia it says the french mostly used their bayonets planted on their rifles. Bayonet on rifle is longer than clubs, machetes and such.

@@oz_jones they also had guns, from the slave trade

The Amazonians could not even shoot their rifles right. They shot from the hip rather than aiming with their shoulders.

2 hours ? 🤣🤣 they was 2 wars between them and the French. The French did not defeated them the first time but asked them not to attack a kingdom who was under French protection but I get kept on attacking these kingdoms under French protection.witg lead to the second war in witch they were defeated. the French came back with more new powerful weapons this how they were defeated.

The earths mantle literally froze over

It's always been like this. Hollywood is SO bad with history.

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A nuanced, balanced, historically accurate representation of the darkest depths of human nature? DAS RAYCISS!

@@okay8136 yes. Funny how that attitude lines up exactly with the "white man's burden."

So... What you said is true, that every demographic/nation has an ugly history at some point - but most people do seem very keen to ignore who the "winners" of the shit-pile known as history were and are. "Everyone was bad" kind of ignores matters of scale and causality. The Dohomey kingdom did some pretty bad things - largely through a gluttonous king who was propped up and supported by European traders who were the ultimate winners of this entire exchange. I think you'd be hard-pressed to blame the people of a pupped government more than the European nobility who were propping them up. Equating those evils is the same logic people use to deny the Bosnian genocide - it's the logic that says "Oh, well the other side was also doing an awful thing" completely ignores the messiness of war and who ultimately succeeded most in committing war crimes.

@@monsieurdorgat6864 "largely through a gluttonous king who was propped up and supported by European traders who were the ultimate winners of this entire exchange. " The Dahomey had come from the breakdown of previous slaving kingdoms. Slavers in that part of Africa, there right as the coast runs east, have been selling slaves for well over 1,000 years. Europeans just paid better than Arabs and Moors. The Atlantic Slave Trade existed for nearly 1,000 years before it became TRANS-Atlantic. The Dahomey were helping to illegally transport slaves to the United States after that had been outlawed for decades. Their predecessors sold slaves to the Europeans before that, and THEIR predecessors sold slaves to the Arabs and Moors before THAT. The "winners" of history are people that adopt science, empiricism, secularism, and at least some level of accountability for the powerful. That includes the Chinese, many Arab countries, the Iranians until their Revolution and hopefully again, Germans, Japanese, Indians and many more. But you keep on trying to find new ways to say "White people bad".

@@monsieurdorgat6864 not so much, what people are miffed over is how history is being rewritten so that the "everyone was bad" along with the lessons we can take from that to grow as a species is being co-opted so that certain people can be lionized and reified into perfect angels who were always morally correct from current years perspective, purely based on skin color. Which is pretty racist. If we had more tales of personal and moral growth and historically accurate representations of how "both sides were bad," in my opinion it would go a long way towards preprogramming better behavior into people. And that's kind of the underlying objective of (especially film) media and art. But I could be wrong.

You can take a genetic test which can these days pinpoint to a very small region of origin. It might be interesting for your family story to know with what African groups you're most closely associated.

Or profit...

I hate constantly hearing about the British royal family on American TV. Who the hell cares? Did our ancestors fight England so their descendants could come back groveling to kings?

And they then went out and said if you dont see it you hate women. No surprise Hollywood is dying.

The advertisement is misleading though. Its not about Dahomey fighting for freedom against Europeans its about their conflict with the Oyo empire who did oppress and dominate them for much of their history. The marketing lead is a fool.

@@admirekashiri9879 You seem really determined to defend this movie.

@@Hale_parker I'm addressing the misconceptions and misinformation. I'm an African history enthusiast it frustrates me when I see misinformation being pushed on both left and right sides.

​@@Hale_parker I've seen this same account leaving these comments all over threads on not just this video, but others covering The Woman King. I'm convinced it's a mercenary account shilling out for $.

but you see, he has evil terrorist religion

It doesn't help that a number of black people/African Americans are willing to side with truly horrible people just to get more power and/or the excuse to act like horrible people.

One thing about whitewashing in the 40s and 50s is that the USA was still 90% white, even California. So to get the right Actors would be nearly impossible back then. Even more when it was so easy to get well known white Actors after one phone call, who also draw on their name alone and we all know its all about the Money in the end. So i dont wanne defend it, back i can understand why they did it back then. Nowdays there is of course no excuse for it.

The sad thing is that the film makers were aware of the true history of Dahomey. And they still chose to make the movie. One can only assume that these film makers are hell bent on using any movie to indoctrinate people with the "white people bad, colored people good" agenda. When it's not a white vs black narrative, it's a male vs female narrative.

So true!!!!

Imagine if they had told the story from one of the tribes fighting alongside the French’s perspective. The people trying to end slavery. There would be no need to whitewash history because they’d be telling the story from the people who were on the right side of history. But that would show that humans progress when we work together and not when we segregate based on arbitrary traits.

Lupita seems to have a good head on her shoulders

I already knew the history. Which is why I didn't go to see it.

no, they knew what they were doing. this was on purpose.

@@francas277 100%!!!!

Lupita Nyong'o's family is African from Kenya, and surely she has a realistic idea of Africa, not the fictional one of black Americans. Lupita doesn't need to erase or mythologize the continent she comes from, much more likely it is more important for her to denounce the civil injustices to which Africans are subjected. Her family fled to Mexico due to political repression and riots in Kenya, it is impossible that she would have participated in the historic denial of Dahomey women's involvement in the African slave trade.

@@not.my.democrat True enough. It’s all about butts in seats and cash in the pocket.

​@@not.my.democratWhat are you talking about?

I always read it as..: “look, we weren’t sure about the quality of our plot and production, and we’re quite in doubt that our characters are convincing and likable enough to catch your attention and stay in your memory longer that it takes for the final titles to fade out, so we added this line right here, about our movie being “based on a true story” to add at least some weight to this obvious fail, hopefully returning at least some of the investments. please, don’t judge us too harsh! we tried, we really did, and we need this participation trophy…” 🤦‍♂️

It's always been that way. Generally they get the names, and sometimes the times, and locations right. Anything else is fair game.

Smashed in the b hole

Funny you say that, considering that Jadwiga of Poland was declared a King. Even if she was technically a Queen. But I digress. I get what you mean. Edit: Apparently, after a fascinating discussion below, Jadwiga is technically a King and a Queen. TLDR: In Polish context, she's a King and titled as such, because she'd be a Queen Consort if she were named a Queen. Which is definitely an inaccurate title. In English context, she's definitely a Queen, specifically a Queen Regnant. Edit: It'll be inaccurate to call Jadwiga only a King or only a Queen. But moreso as Jadwiga, the Queen Regnant of Poland that was crowned King.

@@mcihay246 Lots of people get declared things they aren't. Words still have meaning.

Not necessarily. When referring to foreign nobility English either finds the closest translation it can or just uses the original term (such as referring to tsars as tsars and not kings while calling a knyaz a duke). Depending on the culture and language a queen may only refer to the wife of a king and not to a ruler in her own right. It's the weird compromise of trying to convey the position as seen by the people and also English tradition. It's annoying and confusing and ends up running into the fact that a lot of female gendered titles refer to wives of the male title holder and not to women holding the titles in their own right.

@@adorabell4253 I think the distinction between Queen Consort and Queen Regnant (or simply "Queen") is well established in English.

@@unitron2005 I know. That's why I say "technically a Queen". I'm not saying you're wrong, just find it ironic.

You missed the part where " other empires " ware buying slaves from them

Or where FRANCE kicked their asses to the tune of 400-500 for the loss of....6 or so...

@@Rammstein0963. that I’ll need to look that up, but as I’m outside the typical American bubble I totally accept France as the major European land power for the last near millennia so I don’t doubt it. I’ll have to look it up, any specific battle name etc I should look for?

Battle of Atchoukpa, total massacre for the dahomey.

@@Rammstein0963. spot on, thanks man

That's why Lupita Nyong'o dropped the offer

You're forgetting the Agoji weren't always successful in their campaigns and some were captured and sold too so Viola may very well be representing her ancestors as well.

@Kgosi And damn does that make me happy. She refused money, first of all. AND she risked having reputation murdered out of integrity. Fuck that's admirable

Better, an Agojie Nanisca (possibly make taken for the movie) was reported by the French to behead slaves and drink their blood.

The Dahomey enslaved 2 million Africans, including the last slaves (illegally) transported to the US in 1860. Tens of millions were killed in slave capture, thousands taken for human sacrifice and the heads, jaws and genitalia of the vanquished were as trophies. They didn't give up slavery and human sacrifice till the French invasion in 1890's. The last slaves transported to the US told how the Dahomey only took the young and slaughtered the old. They even made the children carry the heads of their parents back to the Dahomey town.

Shame you can practically count them on one hand. 😕

She was going to play as Nawi, viola's daughter in the movie. She actually made a documentary interviewing the living decsdeants of the captive of the Dahomey Kingdom. It's called Woman Warrior.

Now we need her to do the documentary to counter the movie so we can see some real balance.

yes exactly. she def got my respect for that. pity nobody talks about that

That's exactly the difference between Afro-Americans like Viola Davies and Africans like Lupita Nyong'o, the former only know the broadest strokes of a Disney-fied version of Africa whereas Africans know exactly what Africa is and isn't. Making a movie asking you to root for the Dahomey is like making a movie about the Belgians in Kongo asking you to root for Leopold.

Wasn't there all-female regiment that was personal fighting force of the queen of Ethiopia, beside usual all-male (or nearly as such) ordinary army? I might be wrong about this.

Dude you Literally agree with the so called "Narrative" Your only issue is that the movie isn't Historically Accurate

@@jangbo111 no I do NOT. When did I say that? What I speak about is HISTORY not NARRATIVE. No. My issue here is that this movie was made to change history because no one wants to face the fact that historically black nations were enslaving other black nations. Don't be ridiculous. I will not back down from what I said. Let me guess, you actually LIKED this false movie narrative didn't you? Don't come into a battle of wits with your weapons empty.

@@Fatherofheroesandheroines Literally just repeated what I said back to me.

Or the Mali empire?

Im a historian and agree with this comment.

I'm also a historian and I agree with this comment

We also forget that those rulers and chieftains are often the sellers of slaves, because it was a convenient by-product of their power struggles, so they are the least innocent. edit typed before I got to that part

Yes I have gone super historian

Thx Metatron for being a voice of reason

It's kind of inevitable, though. Most people wouldn't really understand, relate, or empathize with actual historical people. Seriously, I can't stress enough how many series about American Pilgrims just ignore the fact that they were mostly criminals and religious nutjobs. No modern person is going to empathize with a culture that thought kissing your wife in public (after a long, grueling trip, no less) was an offense worthy of the stockades and public shaming. Most people also don't want to contend with their actual history - because it implicates almost every demographic's history into something pretty awful. Hollywood is here to make things entertaining, and absolutely should not be making claims to historical accuracy - probably ever. Most people want clear-cut good/evil divides, and that's something that history almost never affords.

@@monsieurdorgat6864 Isn't that the point of learning history? To try to grasp a sense of their mindset and to dissect how we perceive good/evil here and now vs those times and places. This is exactly the critique that he levered on these pieces -- if you want to claim historical relevance, you work to keep as much accuracy as you can; people can decide to like it or not, but you have something to standby rather than trying to hide behind nothing (worse, while creating falsehoods many who aren't interested to research might take as truth). One can always just label it as fiction.

@@IHateUniqueUsernames That's the point of learning history, not the point of Hollywood. These movies should not have claimed historical accuracy, but Hollywood movies failing to live up to their "Inspired by a true story" catch line rarely spur this much controversy. It is INCREDIBLY COMMON for historical accuracy in Hollywood/Disney to be thrown aside for the comfort of the audience. In this case, I'd posit that this movie's inaccuracy was actually for the comfort of both their white and black audience. While no fuss made over white comfort has ever hurt the economic success of a movie, somehow offering that false comfort to black people inspires some outrage. What's terrifying, as I'm increasingly seeing in this comment section, is the intent/takeaway to blame black people for their own enslavement and for white people to wash themselves of that culpability. I'd like to hope that Metatron isn't trying to promote that poor understanding, but the extremely short and incomplete description he gave seems to be leading most of his commenters to that conclusion. You have NOT seen what I've seen of this comment section, let me tell you 😟

​@@IHateUniqueUsernames No one watches a movie and really thinks it's real history. That's like saying people get violent by playing video games. Now something like documentaries are different. Now people might reference a movie if they have no other literal knowledge, but that doesn't mean they trust that source 100% and ignore everything else forever.

@@monsieurdorgat6864 I mean you have a poiint but at the same time; outside of Valkyrie (which was about a plot to assassinate Hitler anyway), I dont think theres ever been a movie about Nazis depicting them as heroic as to maybe inspire Germans and Europeans, and German Americans or something...

They will only consider making a good movie about Africa history if a African person asks and gets support for it, otherwise it will go nowhere

Money + Propganda

@@BjornHeiden Rather, they will only do it if they think there is money in it.

First thing you gotta understand is, Hollywood have been doing this for years. Whether it be any film about Thermopylae, Braveheart etc. It's just now that they realised they can make money off African history too.

It's basically trying to do for African Americans what Braveheart did for Scottish Americans. What major military success do the Scottish have to brag about winning all by themselves? Not in union with the UK, JUST Scotland. Maybe Braveheart isn't quite so egregious as William Wallace's fight for independence from England wasn't TOTALLY at odds with "freedom" (quite like presenting the Dahomey's raid to kidnap and enslave people as an anti-slavery battle) but Wallace was not fighting for freedom. He wasn't against the exploitation of the feudal system, he wanted to take control of the feudal system for himself. I don't know why there aren't more stories companies of black soldiers in the US civil war. I'm aware of only ONE major movie about that and that's a genuine story of black people literally fighting to free other black people, the US civil war was entirely over the enslavement of black people. Maybe it's how it's part of something else that is "other", like how an all-Scottish regiment isn't a Scottish achievement if the Scottish regiment was under British command at the time.

The way we treat animals now will be considered repugnant in a couple hundred years and the Roombas, and other convenience robots we step over in our homes, are the cave-man versions of the AIs we'll see in the next century.

Exactly. You can make a statement about the injustice if slavery without making your protagonists the embodiment of 21st century ideals. I haven't seen the Woman King yet, but I intend to. I will go out on a limb here, however, and say that, even with its apparent historical whitewashing, this film seems like a step in the right direction. It's about Africans in an African setting. There are Europeans in it, but they come from Europe. I'd much rather watch that than a film set in, say, 15th century Scotland, whose inhabitants happen to look Nigerian or Chinese, for some reason.

Exactly. Northman didn't erase the atrocities of the Norse yet was mature and handled it well.

@@robertabrahamsen9076 Agreed. Though knowing Hollywood they'll screw it up. How long before we get a movie on Somalia or Ethiopia all played by Bantus rather than Cushites? How long before we get a movie portraying the Ancient Egyptians pre 25th dynasty as black? We already got black Hebrews in the Bible tv series. Americans are obsessed with race and see all of Africa as Bantus

Why are there more slaves today then there was when this movie is happening? 🤔

Who was Breonna Taylor and what does her mentioning has to do with what ulterior motive or “true intent”?

Oh wow. Just Google and it is a real fuckfest. Officers forced entry into her home. Her boyfriend claims he didn't hear them say anything announcing their presence, fired a warning shot at the intruders. In return the three officers fired 32 shots 6 of which hit the girl, killing her. They claim to be investigating a drug operation, but NEVER BOTHERED TO SEARCH THE HOUSE for the drugs. As of 2022 the officers involved have now been federally charged with conspiracy because they apparently MISLED THE JUDGE so they could get a warrant. One has pled guilty. While this is abhorrent and unacceptable behaviour by the police, the girl's family received 12 million dollars. While life is precious the average American makes 1.7 million dollars in their lifetime. These are the facts of the case. Make of them what you will.

@@Celisar1 Breonna was a black american killed around March 13, 2020, when cops allegedly forced entry into her house during investigations into a drug dealing operation. A firefight ensued between Taylor's boyfriend and the cops, which resulted in a cop wounded in action and Breonna's death. The police allege they announced themselves as such and tried to enter, but eventually resorted to breaching the door with a battering ram because they weren't allowed or couldn't get in. Breonna's boyfriend alleged he never heard the cop's self-identification and instead opened fire first, believing the cops to be "intruders". That is part of the story you can find online if you look her up, the devil being in the details. Either way, a black woman was killed, "sparking" protests nationwide over alleged "police brutality and racism". Things got "worse" for a spell when a grand jury failed to indict the cops for her death. That is Breonna's story. As for the ulterior motive, cannot respond for Toni G, because I have neither heard of the movie till now nor seen it. It does sound like Toni is implying that Breonna, in the credits, is heralded as a fallen female warrior against evil white oppression, despite not being a character within the movie. Toni, please correct me if I am wrong.

@@atticussulla877 Gladly. In the movie there is a scene toward the middle, where one of the warriors holds a little funeral or remembrance scene, listing the fallen warriors of the pervious battle the movie starts with. This scene is then repeated in the previously mentioned mid-credits scene. There is no character named Breonna in the entire movie and even Imdb doesn’t mention a character named Breonna, which makes me believe this was placed there in reference to Breonna Taylor. Also thank you for explaining in details about Breonna Taylor. 👍👍

@@atticussulla877 Awesome summary. I will add a few more details. The cops were issued a no knock warrant but they elected to knock. During the time they knocked is when the issue of if they identified themselves game into play. Part of the controversy was if no knock warrants should be allowed, despite both sides agreeing that the police did in fact knock and some arguing that entering without knocking would have prevented the firefight.

Here I thought moses was the slave king

He was a real slavery enojoyer alright

He also was a well known whipping aficionado.

King ghezo. One of the "protagonist" in the movie. The one who potrayed as anti-slave trade. Is actually the biggest slave trader in the continent. The british in 1830s, had begun cracking down on the atlantic slave trade. In 1840s the british preassure the dahomeys to put an end to practice of slave trade. King ghezo respond: "The slave trade is the ruling principle of my people. It is the source and the glory of their wealth…the mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery". While some dispute this quote as western propaganda. It does not change the fact that. King ghezo continue on the slave trade. Until the british blockade all the ports and forced him to put an end to the slave trade in 1852, reluctantly..... And then resumed on 1857. And continue to do so until 1890s. Oh did I mention that they also practice human sacrifice using slaves they capture?. Yeah...they are good guys alright.... same as calling stalin a family man.

We wuz slave kings and shit

I just laugh because they claim people need to feel represented and see themselves in movies, but then they blame and shame the demographic that isn't represented in the movie for not going to watch it.

Yikes - ignore the corporations shilling controversy all you want (controversy sells, conversely to what you think), but if you seriously think the words I'm sure you're referring to are "meaningless", then you should seriously take a step back and rethink.

Telling people they are racist/sexist if they don't see your movie makes it meaningless. Calling people these words for simply disagreeing with you makes them meaningless. When everything is ist/phobic nothing is and reasonable people simply start ignoring them. I've been called racist because I didn't agree with Barack Obama, and communist/socialist because I didn't agree with Trump. Being called those things means nothing, because they been used as a weapon to try to silence anybody who disagrees.

There is also the oxymoron of making a movie "for black people to watch" and then not understanding that non-blacks would by their own logic not want to watch it.

@@Supermanfan99 I hope that stupid narrative dies off. "Yeah,this movie is specifically for X-group!, but if you dont watch because you are in another group, you are (every bad -ist possible)", like, bruh, any minor interest I could had, washed away with your bs

It's funny how families can be different. We're of Scottish ancestry and we all loved Braveheart, but if we watched it and I didn't like it my parents would just be like "Really? Huh, that's too bad."

I'm racist, but I would shake hands with you

If ya want to hear about some REAL badass "black" history..then check out the "Nubians" or the "Kingdom of Kush" and not the garbage that hollywood puts out these days. But it's just a shame there's not enough attention to them though...not even in movies. Here's a bit of the list why(there's more though): 1. They are considered one of the best archers in ancient history. In fact, the only one that can be consider on par with them is the English longbow which is 1000+ years later. 2. They are one of the core units of Hannibal Barca together with the Iberians during the 2nd Punic wars, especially during his campaign in Italy. (search Battle of Cannae and others like that so you'll get the picture) 3. They had epic wars with Egypt during Egypt's highest peak during the late bronze age. 4. They are the only Christians that survived the Islamic onslaught during 800 AD's on which the whole middle east fell including Jerusalem and Egypt.

So you should. This despicable piece of woke trash is an insult to all sub Saharan Africans & their ancestors. I myself have great love for the Kalahari Bushmen & their rich oral traditions. Their skills as hunters & survivalists are utterly amazing. All the bes5

Things you enjoy or don't enjoy do not usually give deep insights into you or ever mean there is something wrong with you.

Yeah but Hollywood will take this as a sign to never make African historic dramas again. You gave them ammunition. No Shaka Zulu's, no Mansa Musas, no nothing because they ALL had genocides and slavery

Suez Contours Sounds like something _they_ need to be punished for. Not the people speaking up about warped historical inaccuracies.

@@christiancinnabars1402 Haven't they been punished for centuries dealing with Europeans?

Very true. One of the biggest lie in history was that ww2 was fought for our freedom, when in truth it was to keep hold of an Empire, and a build of a new one.

@@suezcontours6653 That's the cost you pay for telling lies and expecting any less from hollywood. If you want to tell historical drama's about POC, tell the raw truth. They were just as evil, vile and awful as the rest of the human race and weren't some fragile sub-species in need of protection that the left desperately wants to paint black people as.

Pretty much

This

Wait, people think braveheart is accurate?

@@TheAngryYumm Only by comparison to this movie.

@@artm1973 Oh geeze. I wish schools would teach these kids how to research... >.

Excellent 👍👍👍👍

I hope you still have it. A picture of the real Ghengis Khan must be worth a fortune today.

had a history teacher say something like "treat history movies like cartoons" at first I get it, movies aren't 100% accurate and sometimes the truth is far more (or less) interesting. then again he was old and may have referred to some of the old history cartoons in the 60s and 70s. which were not the best but worth a look if your curious.

My dad pulled the same gag on me, and I feel the same about it as you.

@@OffRampTourist Do you think you are clever?

Thatsa SPicy Meatball!

He's using Black Truffle Pomodoro sauce. Quite spicy. At least for mayonnaisers. But will he upgrade to Greek Fire?

Mamma Mia I'm getting hungry.

He wouldn't be Sicilian, otherwise.

Arrabbiata perhaps?

Well there was Schindler’s List but that actually happened. And anyone who wanted to make a living in Germany was forced to join that political party.

Primo

@@emberfist8347 being a Nazi National Democratic Socialist Workers Party member has a lot more to do with signing a piece of paper caring card. It had to do with ardently supporting the party under Adolf Hitler supporting anti-Semitism as well as giving in to the brainwashed ideology. Oscar Schindler apparently didn't do any of that

@@emberfist8347 Doesn't the second part of your sentence conflict with the first? If most were forced to join the party to earn a living wouldn't that mean they were nazis in name only?

@@jessiemeisenheimer8675 That was my point. Oscar Schindler wasn’t a hard-line Nazi but as businessman in Germany at the time, he needed to join the party like it or not. It is why he he did what he did to save as many Jews as he could.

Exactly! Morgan Freeman said it best. "The way to get rid of racism is to stop talking about it"

I'm so sick of the Holohuax. Even if it did happen Americans fought against it so why tf are we giving Israel reparations ?!

I totally agree. There's only so many ways to say "racism is bad mmkay?" That's not to say we can't make movies about it. But I would be far more interested in a movie that analyzes racism and asks questions as to why people can get into those lines of thought.

@@spinlok3943 racism is a meaningless communist term. Racial segregation is natural and healthy. This "they hate skin color" bs has never been real. Look at culture look at crime statistics look at how we live and how they live. If everyone hates racist whites why is every attempt of them to live alone stopped ? Where are whites allowed to have their own space and be left alone ?

And now he's married to a white guilter himself.

Mine too 🤣

Of course they were. Cause the historical truth of humanity doesn't fit these dishonest and nonsensical "social justice" propaganda narratives, and the weak hearts and minds that are drawn in by them get upset when their fantasy bubbles are popped.

Today is the first day I've learned about the true history of this movie, too. I am a little shocked though I think most movies made of deceased celebrities are false. I am aware of the Rosa Parks (true) story also.

Mad at you or mad at the movie?

She is really mad that she has been wrong all this time, and her sister proved it to her.

He didn't say anything controversial he didn't evem address the main criticisms

@@jangbo111 he called them out for leaving out the fact that Dahomey was instrumental in the African slave trade. What more would you have had him say?

lmfao

@@nikolamilicevic1040 Yes but the king those women fight for is historically pro slavery.

@brooklyn again Almost everyone that is African American knew about this tribe because it contributed to their suffering in slave trade.

It was a French protectorate Dahomey invade and kill/capture villages under French protection France lands small army, fixes bayonets and basically marches on the Dahomey capital.

Same in the Namib with the Germans and the Hereros... but today the Hereros are considered good and poor poor victims!

Wasn't this group of female warriors also destroyed within hours by the French?

@@nonombre7159 45 minutes I think.

@@Thor-Orion With modern weapons

The irony is they spent the last three years ranting about “facts” and science.

It’s a sign of why I want to nuke the world.

Wokeism should be destroyed

If the film was very accurate to the real history then the audience wouldn’t like what they see

Hollywood has always had a huge problem with historical accuracy... one way or the other.

@TheGreatEggKing Probably The Assassination of The Outlaw Jesse James. Yeah, it wasn't great

Pardon my ignorance but who was Jessie James?

A bandit in late 1800s American West. His actions were novelized and romanticized by the entertainment industry for considerable profit. His fame has waned with the decreasing interest in Westerns.

@@cristinagarrido3930 he was a famous american outlaw during the wild west :)

@@cristinagarrido3930 Former Confederate Bushwacker turned brutal outlaw after the Civil War. Some folks glorify him like he's some Robin Hood type.

Who/what was the source of this information? White european historians with an agenda to portray themselves as better than they were and others as worse than they were? I don't trust history written by white european slavers and colonisers.

They're not lazy, they're simply propagandists plying theire trade. Truth doesn't enter into it, it's all about whatever line of BS they're peddling today.,

No they just don't care. Being woke scores you brownie points and that's what matters to a lot of these people. Not actually helping people.

Well, people are pretty stupid and will consume any content put in front of them nowadays

P T Banum " there's a suckered born every minute " or at least I believe it was his saying, HaHa.

And your buying or not buying a ticket has absolutely NOTHING to do with your taste in movies or budget.

I didn't watch the movie once the actress came out with that outrages statement, but watching this I am glad I didn't watch this propaganda

people are smart enough to bristle and dislike propaganda films. That's why so many woke movies flop. They're poorly written propaganda pieces that are selling an agenda. Hollywood interpreted "diverse stories" in the worst way possible and are now just shoving crap down our throats with a gun pointed at us

I recall someone saying that if you don't like Beyonce, you're racist. This is absurd.

Profit above all else.

Media is ultra marxist, it must push a victim oppressor narrative. Divide and conquer.

The 'liberal' establishment has expended so much energy demonising the West, the progressive force for 300yrs, using modern sensibilities that other cultures will look bad in comparison. In reality, this judgement of the past with modern values is futile. If we don't progress we've failed. So, of course the past looks bad after progression. Personally, they need to tell good stories and ignore the children who can't understand the world has moved on and people were worse in the past. I'd be happy with a truthful tale of the rise of the Dahomey if it was a good story! But having made so much of US slavery, dahomey, Ashanti, Benin etc society at the time will not compare favourably.

I think they are the real racists to be honest, since they don't seem to think that regular black history will sell movie tickets. So they need to race-swap them into previously white stories instead. African history is really rich but it's never really told. Which is a shame.

The wise heed the warning of our ancestors about woMEN and seek Mama. Go ahead get your man but know this you deny WaWa for his salty drink.

Like with the little mermaid. If you want her to be black, jut place her story in africa, where there are black mermaids mythos and legends.

He's not a slave to his past. Just like not all modern Germans are Nazis ansd which is why Hitlers grave is in some random parking lot and not celebrated. So his past doesnt define who he can be today. Cant hold him to that. In fact, it can strengthen his resolve; he can realize the awful history of his ancestors and choose to not be like them and push to wipe out any forms of racism and blackface is perpetuating just that. Should he incite violence? Probably not .But then again nobody should be walking aroiund in modern day Amsterdam wearing Blackface either nor is; he nor responsible for his ancestors. He's his own man

@@BladeValant546 I’d suggest you read up on the long history of the Dutch national holiday of Sinterklaas and the long-standing use of blackface in this holiday. While I agree that the worst examples of blackfacing during this holiday are racist and bad, you cannot simply encourage violence against everyone who (in their minds) celebrates this holiday ‘the old way’. When I was a kid, black kids would celebrate along with white kids, getting candy from people in blackface (and black people would blackface too, believe it or not). The history of blackface in the Netherlands is very different from that in the USA. Increasing awareness has shed more light on the how the historical black painting of faces on this holiday (which happened as far back as pre-christian times) took a more racist and darker turn in the 1800’s when wigs with curly hair, big earrings, and painted lips were introduced to ‘black pete’, the blackface character. This was done because black people were seen as more jolly and innocent, and thus less scary to kids (whilst not necessarily as bad of a stereotype as black people in the US, it is hurtful nonetheless). So nowadays many people want to hang on to painting the faces ‘black-ish’ to keep up with the millennia-old tradition, but without the racist stereotypical attributes involved. But then again, what is too much and what isn’t? Do you still think ‘all’ of them should be punched? In Dutch oversees territories and ex-colonies, black people paint their faces white to portray some of the white characters that are involved in this holiday. Should they be punched too? You’re opening up pandora’s box in terms of violence and being negligent about applying appropriate historical context. For these reasons it is not okay to say you should simply punch anyone who does blackface in the Netherlands.

@@BladeValant546 So the Wayans Brothers should be beaten for doing whiteface?

@@BladeValant546 Return to reddit from where you came.

"No you‘re just a bigot if you don’t agree that every black person thinks exactly the same and has the same past. Actually, everyone is equal and by equal we mean equally obliged to believe our, absolutely not propagandistic, politically correct narrative!" -the, totally not establishment controlled, mainstream-media probably

Don't forget that the French were just using bayonets in melee combat with the Dahomey with that victory. They didn't even have to fire the guns

When you get slammed by the French, you are no warriors.

The USA made the slave trade to America illegal in 1808. The freeing of slaves in America was a more difficult problem since it involved property rights and compensation. The British made the slave trade illegal about the same time as the Americans but they paid reparations (compensation) to the slave owners in the Caribbean in the 1830s.

@@X525Crossfire the French were actually very good soldiers. They were the ones that held the line in WWI. Also a lot of the troops that fought the Dahomey were the foreign legion. The foreign legion are dead hard lads.

@@X525Crossfire France has ones of the best military records of any European country, but everyone still makes of them for losing ww2

I mean, at least the painter\vegan is accurate. That's more than most historical dramas.

Add 'an animal rights advocate'.

You mean stupid people. It's called The slave trade for a reason.

I agree, it gets us talking about a time when only one side are seen as the bad guys, this at least shows the African tribes were more complicit in slavery than anyone. More and more blacks today are waking up to the fact and the generations to come will hopefully learn it too. Though i'm sure white ppl are always going to be used as a racial bogeyman!

The implication is far worse, if there was no cooperation by African Kingdoms then it just reduces these people to animals, as if white people can just hop off a boat and cast a net out like fishing and catch some random black people, and no locals would do anything to stop this?!?! How would they be so incapable, the slave trade was when European powers only had single shot muskets. No, it was only possible by the complicit actions of native Africans and racism was a huge component. Not racism as in black vs white but racism like seen in Germany in WW2, how different ethnic groups were hated though to outsiders the differences seem so trivial. I think people with fuzzy history may think "oh they colonized Africa and THEN began the slave trade", no, the rush for Africa came AFTER all the western nations had banned slavery. One of their rationalisations for their takeover of these countries was to put an end to slavery. And European powers couldn't even hope to take over such large swathes of Africa without having a far greater firepower advantage, they needed rapid fire repeating weapons and artillery, it was the only way colonialism was possible. What made these colonies impossible to hold was losing that firepower advantage as independence movements slowly started getting automatic weapons, colonial powers could not hold onto any colonies without a supreme firepower advantage.

Yep. Slavery has been monopolised by the media as a stick to beat whiite Europeans. Left wing politics. The barbary slaves and roman slavery is just ignored. If you do studies in slavery, you'll just focus on african slave. Nothing on modern slavery. Media sucks

Yeah the backfire has been better than the actual film

I'd be drawn in just with a title like "The Pasta King". Heck, "Pasta Emperor" would also pique my interest

The Sicilian King, would be my pick for a movie staring our favorite YT historian and language personality.

Two hours of how pasta is good for you, I would pay to see that.

Now that sounds like a great movie.

@@GeorgeSemel 🤣

His video is was off in many areas, though.

@@admirekashiri9879 for example?

@@elizabethstone3352 3:30- 3:46 You think with people boycotting this they'll try to make an African centered film again? Ye likely not, they'll just stick to tokenism and race swapping of Eurocentric stories, any African story after this will likely be boycotted too. 6:41 - 7:13 The film isn't about that, their marketing is a huge factor behind why many people are triggered. It takes place in 1823 around the time the Dahomey kingdom was at war with the Oyo empire, the European characters aren't the main villians they're more so background antagonists who play a small part towards the end of the film. The real antagonists are is the Yoruba Oyo empire which made Dahomey a tributary state for much of its history and demanded annual slave tributes. 7:45 - 8:20 Yes Dahomey was involved in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade however, they weren't the biggest suppliers of slaves. The Kingdoms they conquered called Allada and Whydah exported way more than they did. Plus do remember there was no Pan Africanism just like you Europeans Africans identified with ethnicity and kingdom not race. And literally its just one character in the film who spoke out against slavery we aren't shown what the rest of them or the majority believe. 8:20 - 8:30 King Ghezo was a usurping tyrant that fact of history is known, he only got into power with the help and support of European slave merchants. They should have shown instead the reign of the twins King Akaba and princess Hangbe when the Mino were new, the political intrigue, the wars etc would have shown how things were. 8:31 - 9:00 It's historical fiction like all the other stuff you've covered, tell me why wasn't there such effort to boycott those other projects? This film is simply a fictional retelling of the Dahomey Oyo conflict which was real, but ofcourse it didn't happen as shown in the film, would have been better aa an R rated film at least they could cover the conflict better. 9:00 - 9:12 You're literally one of the most educated people I know Metatron you know full well history is not black and white. The Dahomey kingdom faced oppression and they too lost people to the slave trade, major figures in the Haitian Revolution were Fon people of Dahomey. The problem here is most of you people are attacking without a full understanding of the entire history. Yes them being oppressed at one point did not justify their cruelty indeed it should have been showcased if they really wanted to cover this Kingdom but, given their surroundings and circumstances this was the norm though due to their weakness they became brutal to try and intimidate their bigger enemies and rivals such as Oyo, and the Ashanti kingdom etc. In my opinion this film was a missed opportunity to showcase why and how exactly they partook in the slave trade, there was an arms race and there was no Pan-Africanism each kingdom was out for self, some people were good others were evil within these lands it wasn't as clear cut as Souls good or souls evil.

@@elizabethstone3352 if you still need examples look at my comment I posted above more recently. Anyone who watched the movie can smell the BS in this whole vid😂

@@donovansmith1686 Well, I didn't find it. Quote?

And the amazon's fought one battle against the French and got the shit kicked out of them

i can be wrong but i think were the french

@@razoo911 yea they were French

@@bdleo300 im not talking about the movie but the history if im not wrong, i mean the french invasion it was the thing that stopped the slavers and destroy that kingdom of west africa edit: did you delet your comment Bbleo?

Yawn! Remind me, when did we finish paying reparations to slavers…

The King wasn't very historically accurate and it inserted modern feminist ideology into the setting. It's not as bad as The Woman King, but it certainly has big issues.

@@therightarmofthefreeworld4703 I agree, that is why I threw in the "generally". Both had their issues but certainly were still closer to historical accuracy than the Woman King.

Tbf the King wasn't that historically accurate since we know it's based off of the Shakespearean play

@@jetorixjones both are not historical accurate! All movies are for entertaining not documentary

@@nikolamilicevic1040 Here we agree. Google This.Isn’t.Sparta. He does an amazing takedown of the myths and how awful Ancient Sparta was even IN the context of Ancient Greece. pretty eye opening!

Thank you for the recommendation, sounds very tempting. There's also a collection of South African folk and fairy tales compiled by Nelson Mandela called Madiba Magic, which is also beautifully illustrated by a number of South African artists.

Thank you both for writing this, and I look forward to checking out both of your book suggestions.

Yes I had a book of African folk tales as a kid and I loved it. If they want fantasy there's so much in any culture, as telling stories is what humans are best at.

Not a smug put-down, but a genuine question. Did Bantu’s reach all the way down to South Africa?

@@mychannel3774 Yes, there's this event called the "Great Bantu Migration" out of West Africa centuries ago that displaced or wiped out most of the Kapoid people in southern Africa. Most southern Bantu languages adopted their clicking sounds which Africans from up north don't have. The Kapoids survived in the Namib and Kalahari deserts as well as the western half of what's South Africa today, which wasn't settled by Bantus.

Except the African tribes were the biggest perpetuators of slavery lmao

The story is about Dahomey fighting the Oyo empire the Europeans are not the main antagonists. Its loosely based on the Dahomey Oyo war

but then evil wins

@@Hamstray ??

@@admirekashiri9879 Strange how that's not actually what the film is based on, it's based off the franco-dehomey wars. Hence why there are frenchman in the film. The movie could've easily been about how the neighboring tribes/kingdoms actually helped out the french similar to the situation of the spanish involving south America. The movie blatantly tries to paint these slavers as freedom fighters against slavery when it was the opposite. Imagine a gripping story about the characters where they learn to appreciate one another regardless of pigmentation. Unfortunately what we got is the equivalent of garbage pandering and attempts at historical revisionism. Edit: spelling errors corrected.

But us Brits are all evil racist colonisers Hollywood told me so Huh what do you mean that every British person that paid tax before 2014 contributed to ending the slave trade by paying off the 200 year old debt!?!?!

You mean the ones who created the demand in the first place?

full of press ganged sailors aka slaves oh white thats fine lol

They should have made a movie about that

@@umwha it would indeed be a great movie. But not in keeping with the narrative. Look up the West African Squadron? A story about the HMS Black Joke would be good in its own right.

É isso mesmo

exactly what i thought

That would have been awesome.

Exactly. But we live in a highly politicised world. I'd be happy with a good story about the rise of the dahomey empire! So long as it's a good story and doesn't try to totally rewrite history. I think most people are mature enough to realise the world was always worse in the past but people's lived in the context of their day. But sadly, the loud, immature and politically motivated dominate in Hollywood at the moment. And it's suffering. This was the worst September takings in 25yrs, even excluding inflation. The main issue I have with this movie it literally juxtaposes the heroes and villains, painting a racist narrative to plug into the already heightened racial tensions in the US. Playing to a racist narrative is one thing. Lying to do is a whole other level.

Sergio Corbucci material here

My pleasure

@@metatronyt sincere question can the movie 300 can also be propaganda because they portray them as beacon of freedom , heroes, no tyranny rule but in reality it’s the opposite they even have a slave class so they can maintain the field and they portray as good guys but the Persians are “against” slavery. Blah blah .. because I’m having this conversation with my partner and she put this example of the woman king and the 300 and show the hypocrisy of people … thank you

@@CptCream IMHO it would be if it claimed to portray history. But it doesn't. It is explicitly based on a comic that shows the Spartans as these muscle bound amost naked super humans and the Persians sometimes as inhuman. Anyone who confuses that with history needs help.

@@CptCream Honestly, yes. The mythos around the Spartans is complete fiction. The difference is 300 was presented as stylized fantasy, while this is sold as "real history". Mind you, plenty of people don't get that 300 was stylized fantasy, not history, so it just reinforces the Spartan propaganda. When in fact, historical Spartans are almost the world's first Fascist regime. Seriously, horrible people.

@@LarryGarfieldCrell 300 is based on history, just a heavily dramatised version of it. From what I see this woman king film is kinda similar

Viola could do anything a man can - but better (unless it's a Transman - they they are equally as great!)

I lost it when she stood up and exclaimed "It's Slavin' Time" before Vanquishing the evil white abolitionists. It was definitely one of the movies made.

The Northman shows that people are effectively willing to watch that story.

Now, see? I didn't get what to be mad at until I saw it was possible to make a childish mockery of language over it. Stronk? It opened my eyes in a way that the real word just couldn't. I owe you gentlemen an apology for my deficiency of rage.

When she went "It's enslavin' time" and then went and enslaved them all. Literally crying, what a beautiful scene.

a valid point. the trade was only continueing to spanish and portuguese colonies (the french colonies never adapted chattel slavery, but instead used the same 7 year system as endentured servitude after which one was a french citizen, or 3 years in military service.(which was voluntary) and immediatedly granted emancipation/citizenship if wounded... uuum, the forign legion was founded maybe a decade into the events in the movie, which spanned about 30 years... the movie not only gets the events wrong, but out of order, so *shrug* the forign legion only partially applies

Who has compared this Kingdom to Malcolm X??

@@sugarwaterpurple5280 yo mumma...

@@jellyrun1 i pissed my pants from the sheer disrespect you bestowed upon that man

@@jellyrun1 immature much?

At least he's actually a solid actor, unlike most of the diversity hires we see in Hollywood these days

I think you mean Aryan Gosling.

There's a 0% chance they would ever make an accurate movie about Shaka Zulu no matter who they cast.

@@plain_simple_garak Well they are in South Africa.

@@okay8136 They're working with historians but if you feel thst way avoid it like you're doing this film.

Damn right

Because its true... And true is OFFFFFFENSSSSIVVE!!!! REEEEEEEE

Because they wanted a movie about female empowerment.

it does not fit their propaganda narrative.

I red that book so many times as a kid. I remember worrying and crying reading it for the first time

Finally someone, for whom the whole peninsula can unite behind for a common Holy cause: accreditation for food. From pasta => rasta => Colander King: the true story how the prophet of the Flying Spaghetti-monster told us not to worry, our ignorance, religions, ideologies, wars and such don't really matter, as absolutely nothing in the known universe aknowledges or cares about our existence and the Sun, while wildly bloated, will still be here as the only barely visible thing about our star system, when our planet along it's every lifeform is completely gone.

Pasta was a roman thing. Nothing to do with the chinese. Only their propaganda tells you otherwise

I’m glad to be of help

Steven Crowder actually did a good job talking about it this morning. Granted a bunch of other subjects where discussed to.

I figured this movie would be scrutinized by so many historical RU-vidrs that have become so popular and figured Metatorn would be one of the first

@@metatronyt I’m against this movie for the same reason I’m against making a movie where the Germanz of WW2 are depicted as heroes. A couple of quick clarifications, they were depicted as “reluctant” słavers that would rather sell palm oil. Eurøpeans were portrayed as the dríving force behind słavery but not the main direct enemies. As mentioned this was a kingdom that saw being słavers as part of their way of life and that is actually what they were fighting to preserve. Mass human sacrifíce was a part of this way of life as well and so was cannibalísm. People go out of their way to deny they were canníbals but it only takes a short search to see that in fact they were. Eurøpeans called them “Amazons” but the tribes they fought called them “frenzíed canníbals”; a book written about Afríca even interviewed a survívor of one of their midnight raíds and gave horrifíc details of this fact.

@@GhostSal source please, would like to read.

@@nikolamilicevic1040 it made YOU go do research sweetie. We black people already knew it was false, which is why we don't support it. 🤦🏾‍♀️

I'm also not talking about anyone born after the 90's, young folks don't care about anything important in my opinion...

@@CarlaCollins-mh1ii Young folks never have. That comes with age

It's like BLM but in movie form...both contributed nothing to blacks.

@@nikolamilicevic1040 yes, you're all over the comments section lying. They know it's going to lose money. It's why Viola et Al were so desperate in interviews. It's bombed. Going to lose at least $50 million.

They tried to get us to read works from the anti-semite and stone-throwing rioter Edward Said, whose entire work can be summed up as 'White people bad cuz something something already widely documented psychological phenomenon that everybody does'. That the guy even got more than ten copies printed despite the complete lack of academic merit is exclusively due to racism and the 'Red Seventies' in academia.

@@nvelsen1975 yea it’s absolutely crazy how delusional they are and brainwashed with propaganda, speaking on events that never happened. 😂

Ah yes, those evil Europeans making my stomach rumble. Their black magic has gone too far this time.

Who invented it for real, tho? Assyrians?

@@djpetroski5947 for real Lmao 😂

Wakanda forever?..

@@nephicus339 I guess the punchline comes from Black Panther but I haven't seen a Marvel movie for a long time ^^

@@Par-Crom you’re better off that way, honestly

Agreed, they could have just used them as inspiration...

Same with DaVinci code shit

Somehow I doubt Roman movies elicit that same reaction from you.