Their "way or life" was African slave trade lmao
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Oh good lord! Revisionist history at its finest. Some of these tribes were very cruel in their methods of catching Africans to sell to Europeans. Would it kill them to read actual history or read some Thomas Sowell who has done a great job covering world slavery and especially in Africa.
A movie about the African leaders enslaving other tribes and selling them off would be interesting. This movie to quote Young Rippa/Eric July is “dead on arrival”
https://archive.ph/Xn6hx
The actual history of these people is disturbing.
I’m sure the New York Times will do a thorough report
Finally, slavers as heroes and abolitionists as villains! The blackwashed action reboot of Gone with the Wind is looking lit fam fr fr
(Oh, and also they used their slaves for human sacrifice.)
The historic butchering of what actually happened should be criminal
They could have done it like Apocalypto.
https://youtu.be/gj7O6rPJ-14
Apocalypto is really badly under-rated.
In an interesting way, it's actually more of a horror film. And as bad as it is, the violence and villany of the Mayans is actually far worse than what was depicted. When you read the accounts of what the Mayans did from other American sources, it's clear that this was a civilization of actual god damned savages who built an empire of terror, going so far as to cook and eat leaders of tribes in order to intimidate other tribes they intended to vassalize.
Frankly, any film depicting the Mayans authentically is probably a horror film.
Friendly reminder that the Mayans were so utterly detestable the other Natives begged the Conquistadors to destroy them.
They were so terrible that when they fell, all of the vassalized populations invaded the capital and ate them in revenge.
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The level of barbarian you would have to be to make your enemies patiently wait until they could eat you out of spite is pretty high.
That's actually worse than when Vlad invaded Ottoman territory, and burned all the cities & towns along the way, and impaled hundreds of people in each town, mostly the Ottoman appointed leadership and he got swarms of volunteers.
If Vlad The Impaler sounds like the good guy to people who are watching their neighbors slowly descend spikes impaled through their anus & out their mouth, as they die horribly from exposure among a town of burning rubble, then clearly the Ottomans are pretty shit.
Mayan Empire collapsed waaaay, way before the Spanish arrived in America. You're thinking of the Aztecs who were fighting constant flower wars with their neighbours for slaves, so when the Spanish arrived all the smaller tribes welcomed them with open arms to help fight against their oppressors
Ah, I'm not too knowledgeable about South American history, so I always mix the two up.
The Aztec and Mayan civilizations give credence to St. Paul's assertion that foreign gods were demons.
Not exactly wrong!
So much so that when some strange, swarthy people came on moving islands carrying fire sticks and wearing an unknown armor, other tribes threw themselves at these strangers and begged them to help kill the Mayans. Same for the Aztecs. And while there were plenty of American Indian tribes that were reasonable, there were plenty that were just as insane and violent. Which is why so many Westerns have Indians as the bad guys.
But remember, they are just poor, misunderstood, Noble Savages and we should learn from them. (note: this stance makes a lot more sense now that I have gone back and learned more about Rousseau)
I will say, the only difference is that the North American tribes were a lot less violent than the Central Americans.
The Iroquois never pulled any crazy shit like that.
Yeah, there was scalping, but they literally did that to everyone including each other. And it wasn't super common, normally it was just proof that they had killed someone.
Deathly winters which kill half your young really puts a damper on the ability to sacrifice half your young in extravagant religious rituals.
Oh yea! That makes sense. Well too much sense for Hollywood
That is just white people with their white people eyes using excuses to erase black people.
You know, if you actually knew anything about African history, you could find interesting tales. Instead, you won't just stop making bullshit up.
I think I have a copy (and was forced to read by University) of one of the first novels written in English in Nigeria, by a Nigerian author.
It was very popular in Nigeria, but unfortunately for upper-middle class American blacks, it was non-western, and tribal. It focused very heavily around Patriarchs struggling to live up to their responsibilities; social obligations to family, society, and faith; and is a bit confusing at times because you are expected to basically unwind entire communal and social networks by memory (such that it's hard for atomized westerners to keep track of).
It wasn't a super compelling story, kind of a weird mix between slice of life and adventure, but at least it was done by people who actually care to understand their history; not just "Wakanda-ize" it.
And by the sound of things, not just repeat the same tired plot in all black fiction (by which I mean black American fiction). That is "slavery/racism bad," "white people bad," rap music, and basketball. They have no other stories to tell and nothing else to say. Just endless whining.
They actually have lots of stories to tell, but nothing that fits in a Leftist framework.
This sounds extremely familiar to me. Is it the one where yams are their main crop and currency and it ends with the main character committed suicide because he couldnt take it anymore. And some British explorer looked on and was essentially thinking "how quaint" over all of their customs?
Either way, your main point about actual African culture being incompatible with the Black Liberation types in the US and UK is solid. Its the same problem I have whenever games and movies gender and race swap characters in historical settings when there are plenty of stories they could go to that havent even been tapped yet.
Just as an example, I still get steamed under the collar about Battlefield 5 erasing the Norwegian commandos at Telemark and replacing them with some absolute rando mother/daughter team. Meanwhile, I havent really seen anything except a Sabaton song about Milunka Savić, who is the single most decorated female soldier in history and was so good at what she did that she was put into one the elite Serbian assault units, and avoided discharge after her identity was discovered on the grounds of "But she is one of our best soldiers..."
I entirely forgot about the yams, but you are 100% right.
I don't even think they were real yams. I think they were something that the Africans called yams, but weren't.
That's because Pan Africanism is Leftist bullshit that caused the bloodiest war in African history.
Amazing how everywhere Leftism is tried, it starts a regional, continental, or world war.
Yeah, and the incredible importation of American racialism on Black French troops in Battlefield 1. I still can't fucking believe that shit. American blacks refused to come back to the US because France was so much more welcoming to them than Mississippi was.
They just completely defamed the French.
They have no idea that the English and French didn't even understand why Americans were segregating people by race. It wasn't even a concept to them. The Algerians were just normal, and highly respected, Colonial troops.
I found the name of it by the way, because it was bugging me. Its called Things Fall Apart. And I also reread the synopsis to refresh my memory. It was definitely a curious read, but your average SJW type would be horrified by it. You want some real toxic masculinity? How does three wives and thinking that you have to always fight when challenged (and refusing to fight makes you a coward and therefore dishonorable) sound? But obviously, that is how it is over there with the actual culture of a location, rather than the Leftist demand for the Universal Man.
Not only that. I remember seeing some training videos that were shown to US soldiers going over to the UK during the war where it was an older British woman inviting a black soldier over for tea, and the white soldier had to explain to the audience "You may not like it, but that is how it is over there."
And when you look at African-American troops in WW1 (like the Harlem Hellfighters), the reason they always have French gear is because the Americans army refused to equip them.
But all white people are totally the same, and every white country has had the same race relations that the US has. And the US was totally universal in its race relations as well, so we must hold everyone to the same standard.
Yup, that's it.
I like the part where they were like, "You can beat your wife, but only for so long, and as a disciplinary measure. Sure, if she didn't make you dinner, a corrective slap is in order. But you, you crazy fuck, beat her up so bad she fled for her life by climbing over a wall and you pulled her back down! WORSE: you beat her up ON A HOLIDAY! What kind of fucking savage beats their wife on a holiday dedicated to the god of the home!"
Western sensibilities: "Wait, hang on. There's some priorities amiss here."
W.E.B. DuBouis has a scathing article where he was leaked a copy of instruction by the French Army, to French Soldiers, explaining why Americans were so obsessive about Race, and that the Americans had explicitly demanded that French soldiers stop treating American blacks like everyone else.
All sorts of crazy shit like "American blacks aren't like Algerians, they are savages who were taught civilization through slavery", and "American negros can't be trusted because they are animalistic", and "No American white will tolerate interacting with a Negro".
It's just amazing to me that the French were like, "We know what black people are. Look: Algerians!" And the Americans were just REEEEE-ing like crazy screaming "NO IT'S DIFFERENT!"
Valkyria Chronicles 4 apparently has a character who is suspiciously similar, if not directly references her. (Concealed sex, taking the place of a conscripted brother, etc.)
“Woman King.”
Is it so hard to say Queen?
First word displayed is 'her'. Because of course.
Holy fuck, it's the Dahomey headhunters, isn't it?
'Based on' meaning 'a perversion of' and 'powerful' meaning 'inconvenient'. This movie is being made with the sole intention of teaching black americans a false history.
The King of Woman? Must be a pretty lame country, because the only thing I've heard about it is how easily tragedies in other countries effect it.
5.7 mil views.... 22k likes. Hmmmmmmmm
Coming March 8th 2023?
I'm fucking creasing, it's about Dahomey. The British Empire literally had to go and tell them to stop keeping slaves or the Empire would take them out.
Their King's response?
Then he was assassinated and they executed 400 random slaves in his honor.
But it's okay because he had woman-led armies.
I told you women don't give a fuck about race, this is a pretty clear example.
... I don't think you're right about that. I think you're quoting a different African country. I think that one was in North Africa, not southern Africa.
Also they got thoroughly trashed in every conflict they had with the whitey.
That they fought with guns and not machetes.
As I mentioned earlier a movie that showed how it actually went down could do some good in eliminating propaganda. This ain’t it
I realized my foolish statement after I finished typing.
Thank you. I try
Found the Democrat.
Uhuh.
Woman written race propaganda, directed by a woman, that is all about women, but (((muh joos))) did it.
I checked IMDB, there are six producers, 4 women, one of whom is Jewish.
Ah, a lesbian pushing race division. So shocked.