Here’s Why Some of the Black Community Is Driving #BoycottWomanKing on Social Media
thewrap.comfirst look at Halle Bailey in Disney’s live-action “The Little Mermaid” trailer. Critics don’t have an issue with Davis playing a strong Black leader in “The Woman King,” but are alarmed that the history of the Dahomey tribe, who sold other Africans into slavery, has been whitewashed. “Time to Boycott the Woman King movie.
The film is about the Dahomey & Benin that traded slaves into the transatlantic… This may be the most offensive film to Black Americans in 40-50 years,” wrote Los Angeles attorney and producer Antonio Moore.“Let’s be honest folk.
It’s movie about a African tribe famous for selling slaves to Europeans that was made into a female empowerment story by two White women writers.
You don’t have to be very “woke” to see the problem here,” wrote one Twitter user.The film, which was cowritten by Dana Stevens and Maria Bello, who produced along with Davis and director Gina Prince-Bythewood of “Love & Basketball,” and “The Old Guard” fame, took seven years to make it to the screen.Others see the hashtag as a racist and sexist move to get a film led by a Black woman to fail at the box office. “I’m not trusting any hashtag that tries to get a Black women led movie to fail.
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