The Woman King is an upcoming historical epic piece centered on Gen. Nanisca of the Dahomey Amazons of the Kingdom of Dahomey. It tells the tale of the valiant efforts of Nanisca to fight off
Europeans who were intent on taking over
Africa. But, while the movie is advertised in its trailer as "based on powerful true events," it seems to take great liberties with historical truths and facts — as is typically the woke Left's way. By all available accounts, based on synopses and trailers available to the public, the movie is cinematic fake news and a disinformation machine.
The Woman King seems to ignore blatantly the brutality and savagery of the Kingdom of Dahomey, the empire from which Viola Davis's main character Gen. Nanisca hails. Instead, it features the typical left-wing propaganda and tropes of the evil, white, oppressive colonizer coming for the utopian Africans in the Kingdom of Dahomey.
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But, in reality, Dahomey was an empire built on the backs of African slaves. The kingdom used conquest and slave labor, two major red flags for the rabid-Left social justice indoctrinators, for its own benefit. At least, they are red flags when it was white people who did them.
The
Kingdom of Dahomey was a strong African military power that attacked and imperialized its African neighbors. It captured and enslaved the men, women, and children to enhance its wealth and luxuries. It brutally tortured and murdered some slaves, while others, it willingly sold to Europeans in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Whatever slaves weren't sold or executed worked on the Dahomey Kingdom's royal plantations in Africa.
Additionally, the Kingdom of Dahomey was a willing accomplice in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, a fact at least the trailer of the movie seems to ignore. Perhaps the movie will ultimately reveal this. My assumption is if it does, it will merely be in passing and not a significant plot point of the film. It seems to focus more on Gen. Nanisca trying to fight off French colonizers than the people who were murdered, captured, and enslaved under Nanisca.
It's fine to want to make historical epics that focus on African figures. Yet, if Hollywood starts telling more of these stories, then it needn't shy away from the truth. And the harsh reality is, whether the left-wing elitists and sycophants in
Hollywood want to admit it or not, the African slave trade started in Africa, because of Africans, and was used to make African kings very wealthy.
The truth will make the wokest of the woke cringe, but the fact remains that African kings and queens used slaves to enhance their lives and profits the way many plantation owners did in North America.
