Can someone explain why some writers at TheRoot continue to give this guy so much publicity even after his racist attack on the memory of our ancestors? This obsession is a form of madness!
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On pure talent, political & social insights, it would be Roy Wood Jr by a mile. But given the current media social profiling, ain't gonna happen - he's not the right kind of black!
Finding out brought tears to her eyes..and she turned down the role. Props to her.
You’ve gotta to be pretty silly to make people rally to Stephen A. Smith’s defense, which is what she did. She condescendingly implied that Stephen A. was blaming the women, which was simply not true.
Very true...and writer Ishmael Reed has picked Hamilton apart!
There’s a whole bunch of truth in your first paragraph. Some young girls were brought into the palace and later became wives. But here again, that’s too much of a simplified version.
This is absurd (even with a bit of truth) and probably coming from the studio behind the film. The basic fact is this: Hollywood made a film glorifying a particular group of African women who were as brutal in capturing & trading our ancestors as the men. The film is mostly a white feminist project gone bad. I know…
Just shaking my damn head...Udoka should have known better! Hasn’t he been paying attention, especially given our #MeToo climate? And being engaged to a legit Black Queen like Nia Long? Come on, man!
Exactly!
She’s top-ranking in the MAGA cult. She’s got friends in high places. She sleeps with a right-wing extremist on the Supreme court. She’s a white woman. Nothing’s gonna happen to her!
There is nothing about the horrors of slavery that could fit into the “edu-tainment” category—nothing!
“edu-tainment”? About the slave trade during which so many of our ancestors perished? How twisted is that shit? How could anything about the slave trade be molded into some king of “edu-tainment” project? and who is supposed to be entertained?Smdfh
His white supporters know he’s stupid, just as the MAGA crowd know Trump is dumb and evil. They will support Herschel Walker as long as he continues to signal he supports their white racist agenda. Hershel wants to be elected a black overseer on the republican plantation. That simple.
The Woman King, like Harriet, is a feminist project! And from where I sit, this one is even more diabolical, more pernicious, and an insult to our ancestors.
“big, burly black men”? Ha, interesting language.
Thank you! And “highly sexualized themes" indeed.
Now can we finally stop glorifying this woman and presenting her as some kind of empowering role model for young Black girls? Please stop!
I love Viola Davis, but even her presence in this project does not make me trust it. For one thing, who wrote the screen play & story? After the fiasco that was Harriet, which gave us Tubman’s life through feminist lens and made a Black man the heavy of the piece, I dont trust Hollywood with anything dealing with the…
That African chiefs were selling their own is so tired, stale, and beaten - it’s purely anti-black mischief. The slave trade was a European enterprise, just deal with that fact. That there were sell outs shouldn’t be surprising given the scope of the enterprise. Would you suggest that because there were sellouts among…
They’re not moving quickly enough as far as I’m concerned, but given the deep colonial mentality that exist among so many Caribbean people, I understand the caution. This is where I say ‘big up to Mia Mottley”, she's one Black woman who’s not afraid of the colonialists & imperialists. I’m pretty sure Ralph Gonzales of…