Black feminists refuse to take credit for sabotaging Birth of a Nation by Byron Crawford

Somebody get Feminista on the phone.

If Birth of a Nation was going to be a success, it would have been from white people going to see it. But word got out that it was a movie about a slave that went nuts and went around killing white people, without any scenes in which the black guy has magic powers or a white guy is the real hero, and they were like, “Uh, no thank you.”

Black feminists sabotaged Birth of a Nation, and now they’re upset because people are blaming them for the film’s poor performance at the box office. What sense does that make?

Inconsistency, thy name is Shaniqua.

Birth of a Nation hit theaters this past Friday, i.e. a week ago today, and apparently not very many people went to see it. It grossed $7.1 million at the box office. Because it costs literally an arm and a leg to see a movie in the theater these days, that means only a small handful of people went to see it.

Birth of A Nation’s Box Office Flop and The Unrepentant Pettiness of Black Feminists.

Must read!!!!!!! I repeat this is a must read. If you got 8 minutes you need to take the time out and read this young lady’s view on the success or lack there of the Nate Parker directed “Birth of a Nation” which did a reported $7 million at the box office.

via Special Cloth

I’ve decided to write this because I felt that it was much more conducive to do than a social media rant.

Feathers Scott aka Fee

It’s Sunday, October 9th, 2016 7:02 pm and I just want to start this by saying that at this point, I’m over social media, and I’m over the cyber mafia known as “Black Feminism”.

I‘m to the point where if I even see another black woman with “feminist” in her bio, I assume that she’s petty and that I should not associate with her publicly or privately.

If you haven’t seen/read the news already, Birth of A Nation has flopped in the box office and we have black feminism, which is just fancy cyber vernacular for “I hate black men because I always choose the wrong types of black men to entertain” and their male minions to thank.

This is pretty unfortunate to say, as a woman, especially in the world we live in where there is much negative stigma attached to being a black woman and being a black woman myself.

When I first was introduced to black feminism as teenager….

FULL STORY HERE…

[video] THE BIRTH OF A NATION: Official HD Teaser Trailer

Are we tired of slave movies or nah? Or is the story of Nat Turner a must see?

Set against the antebellum South, THE BIRTH OF A NATION follows Nat Turner (Nate Parker), a literate slave and preacher, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer), accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves. As he witnesses countless atrocities – against himself and his fellow slaves – Nat orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.

 

Nate Parker scores $17.5 million for Nat Turner Slave Rebellion movie at Sundance

Somebody get Stacy Dash on the phone.

via Hollywood Reporter

Birth came to Sundance with big expectations, with many major buyers seeing it as an Oscar contender, especially given the controversy surrounding the past two years of #OscarsSoWhite hashtags. Parker, 36, quit acting for two years to realize the passion project that he wrote, produced, directed and toplined. He put in $100,000 of his own money to fly around the country to talk to anyone who might want to finance it. A dozen investor groups — which included former NBA player Michael Finley and San Antonio Spurs star Tony Parker — cobbled together the film’s $10 million budget.

Just as the world-premiere Sundance Film Festival screening of The Birth of a Nation was about to end on Monday, filmmaker and star Nate Parker snuck out of the Eccles Center theater and into a side room.

[video] THEY DIE BY DAWN ( Starring Michael K Williams, Isaiah Washington, Nate Parker, Jesse Williams, Erykah Badu, Rosario Dawson, Giancarlo Esposito)

Looks epic, hopefully it get a proper push.