Viola Davis‘ new movie has sparked a fierce debate about Hollywood covering hard truths through a lens — including slavery … resulting in some calling for a boycott of this one.
“The Woman King” hit theaters this weekend, but almost as quickly as the hype for the flick started soaring … the pushback also began — with some calling for an outright shunning because of what they perceive as whitewashing the history of the subjects depicted.
The criticism … the African tribe shown on screen, the Dahomey, as well as their all-female military regiment, the Agodjie, are presented as righteous, empowering liberators in all the marketing thus far … when in reality, they were knee-deep in the Atlantic slave trade.
The record isn’t pretty … Dahomey was one of a handful of tribes...