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This is the message bouncing around the black women "Enough is enough" social media echo chamber. A faction of black women will not support the movie : because 1- rape charges (no conviction/allegedly no remorse for passing around a woman for sex) 2- black women have no agency in the film and are used as props to support the "black macho male" narrative. https://www.thenation.com/article/the-birth-of-a-nation-is-an-epic-fail/ The latter isn't sitting well with Dr. Leslie M. Alexander who wrote the article I linked here. Her bio reads: professor in the Department of African American and African Studies at The Ohio State University, where she specializes in 19th century Black culture and political consciousness. She teaches courses on slavery, resistance movements, and historical accuracy in film. Historians such as Professor Alexander mentioned black women, especially, Nat Turner's mom played a role in waging war against slavery to the point where she attempted to kill Nat to prevent enslavement. Unfortunately women are silent in the film (literally in the portrayal of Nat Turner's wife). Further some say Nat Turner had a "spiritual awakening" so to speak and refused to participate in the system. A holy ghost moment when someone finally stands up to the moral injustice is a powerful motif. Aside, I think that would have been a better inciting moment anyway, especially with black people claiming "stay woke" status today. Who knows, maybe this whole film is Nate Parker and Jean Celestin's $10 million attempt at absolution and we're just along for the ride. Still, I don't pay to watch slave movies so I can't claim to boycott. After the reviews, however, I have no desire to see it anyway.

There are always alternatives Bruh I was actually contemplating the prospect of customers boycotting Walmart, not the employees stricking. But a strike--assuming not scab intervention--would have the immediate effect of shutting the franchise down and that may make sense too. No I'm just talking about people like you and I spending our dollars are other stores; until Walmart ends the practice of using slave labor in our prison systems.

　 Cynique How about you guys on this board. Is it your experience that men make lewd comments about females during bull sessions?? I'm sorry I didn't even see this question. I didn't notice it until Troy responded to it. To be honest, me and most of the boys/men I grew up around did NOT make comments like Trumps...bragging about actually assaulting women or forcing themselves on women. Black men may brag about how much pussy they're GETTING, but not about "taking" it or forcing themselves on women. I'm not saying Black men don't sexually assault women or force themselves, but I haven't once heard a Black man talk about grabbing a woman or forcing a woman into sex and those who do these things definitely don't openly brag about them with other Black men. There is often atleast one brother around who will threatened to do great harm to a man who goes that route. With Black males it tends to be the other way around.... We think it's cooler to have game so tight that women forth themselves on YOU and chase after YOU. The most graphic parts of Black men talking to eachother may revolve around how good the sex was or describing the body parts of a woman, but no sexual violence. But this has been MY personal experiences around other brothers...... Troy I wouldn't say Bill is worse than Donald or even as bad. Bill Clinton was (is?) a WOMANIZER......a man who just likes to bang a lot of women and he uses his charisma and power to do it. Where as Trump in my opinion feels he's ENTITLED to a woman's body. He clearly believes in bullying women or using force to get what he wants whether it's money or women or respect in general. You'd never hear of Bill Clinton walking in on beauty pagent contestants while they're dressing, or grabbing women in the crotch, or trying to grope on women he didn't know on an airplane like Trump.....lol. Bill believes in using his charisma to get the coochie, while Trump believes in TAKING it...big differences. Which is why although I may detest a rapist, I actually have respect for a successful pimp. All I think what Donald Trump is doing....is once again doing what Black leaders SHOULD be doing...which is calling attention to the petty social rules that have been plaguing the working class male for decades. Just like Black leaders should have BEEN calling foul and accusing the election system of being rigged...because often times it IS rigged against Blacks and Democrats....but instead Donald Trump and the Republicans of all people are doing it; Black males are often denied jobs and fired from jobs and locked out of much of modern American society because we haven't been "trained" out of flirting with women and making open sexual comments...so why the hell are rich White men the ones talking about this???? It's common in our culture, especially among the poor and uneducated Black males to flirt heavey with women and hit on women. There are few rules in the "game", and guess what.....I see nothing wrong with that. Poor White men have been crying over the feminization of America and the American male when it reall should be BLACK men doing most of the complaining because this effects us much more than effects them. I don't know how many Black men's careers have been ruined over sexual harassment charges and sex offender lables on their record for behavior that would have been totally accepted just a couple generations ago.

Wow... given what you wrote it is troubling and I believe he did it. Like I said before whenever someone goes over-the-top-religious I look at them with the side eye. I cosign Roxane Gay's boycott of the film. I heard some speculation that he is being targeted, to prevent the film from being nominated for an academy award. But from what I've also heard the film is really not that good anyway.

It's funny Troy, he was an NCAA D-1 Wrestler at Penn State. The same university that hid Jerry Sandusky's rapes for over 30 years. It seems that his friend took the fall and he transferred. He has never outright denied the rape, which is troubling. Of course people are saying that he is being wronged because no one brought it up during his other films. the conspiracy theorists think that he is being targeted because of the film's story. I think it's like Biggie said, Mo Money, Mo Problems. When you take a 17 million dollar pay day you become food for the wolves and your life enters the real public domain where everything you do is scrutinized.