Great movie! I watched it on a cruise ship and everyone in the packed theater cheered at the end! As a Black Woman I saw so many current day symbolism. Some of us are still enslaved...not by physical chains but by mental ones. We do not realize our power in unity against the evil that ravish our community. We get onboard with others agendas instead of our own...which should be life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Good Brother: These stories are needed and we need to support them. We are in no position as a people to not support Viola, Gina, and the crop of young black women in and behind this film. Several of these faces are familiar and it served as "graduate class" for these young women with Professors Davis and Prince-Blythewood. May these sisters continue tofind more work and stories to tell so that we have more ways to support with pathways for our own children to follow.
Chuck, I appreciate you putting out the thread; but sometimes threading the needle if it is for a patch that might be needed.
My issue is with the premise for the need for a woman fighting force, and not because they are women.
The Slave Trade operation was big business and the Dahomey, Yoruba, and even Ashanti Kingdom, albeit short-sighted, grew rich and powerful trading their racial brothers. This was no small operation on their part.
All of the resulting threads like the small courageous fight army or the whispers here and there that this is not "right", cannot equivocate to depth of the betrayal and the size of business opportunity seized and then magnified by Europe and the US while the Benin (largely Dahomey) and Nigeria (Yoruba) are dirt poor.
The ports, the tunnels, built to facilitate this massive trade and the tribes left with no parents and the psychological horror of the brain and manpower drain.
The Dahomians and the Yoruba have much to pay for and they are paying today with the continued de-stabalization of their nation.
The premise and the sheer size of the betrayal is something I simply cannot jump over to more promising threads like warrior fellowship, and frankly throwing pebbles at the machinery of the initiation of globalization - that of enslaved human capital.
Totally understand! This topic is troubling in so many ways, to be clear. But definitely worth analyzing and discussing...
Great movie! I watched it on a cruise ship and everyone in the packed theater cheered at the end! As a Black Woman I saw so many current day symbolism. Some of us are still enslaved...not by physical chains but by mental ones. We do not realize our power in unity against the evil that ravish our community. We get onboard with others agendas instead of our own...which should be life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Good Brother: These stories are needed and we need to support them. We are in no position as a people to not support Viola, Gina, and the crop of young black women in and behind this film. Several of these faces are familiar and it served as "graduate class" for these young women with Professors Davis and Prince-Blythewood. May these sisters continue tofind more work and stories to tell so that we have more ways to support with pathways for our own children to follow.
Chuck, I appreciate you putting out the thread; but sometimes threading the needle if it is for a patch that might be needed.
My issue is with the premise for the need for a woman fighting force, and not because they are women.
The Slave Trade operation was big business and the Dahomey, Yoruba, and even Ashanti Kingdom, albeit short-sighted, grew rich and powerful trading their racial brothers. This was no small operation on their part.
All of the resulting threads like the small courageous fight army or the whispers here and there that this is not "right", cannot equivocate to depth of the betrayal and the size of business opportunity seized and then magnified by Europe and the US while the Benin (largely Dahomey) and Nigeria (Yoruba) are dirt poor.
The ports, the tunnels, built to facilitate this massive trade and the tribes left with no parents and the psychological horror of the brain and manpower drain.
The Dahomians and the Yoruba have much to pay for and they are paying today with the continued de-stabalization of their nation.
The premise and the sheer size of the betrayal is something I simply cannot jump over to more promising threads like warrior fellowship, and frankly throwing pebbles at the machinery of the initiation of globalization - that of enslaved human capital.