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I almost bought the book, Love Warrior, before I realized that I have no interest in these types of books :-) The video is from a page on Amazon dedicated to this book The page was well designed and I took notes. While I don't have access to an Orpah like pitch person, I'm not sure it matter very much any more. When Oprah's book club was at its peak, the selection for her book club was an eagerly anticipated event followed by a boatload of media attention. Today, not so much attention is paid the selection. In fact, I discovered this by accident: Another website was interested in me replacing the widget on their website, with an AALBC.com widget. Their widget showed an ad for the Oprah book (Actually, the ad did its job because I learned about the book, but in the past, I would have discovered the book by through free media coverage). Check out how wide the author's grin is. It was plastered on her face for a full 30 seconds. I have to believe they told her to do that because it is such a big sustained smile it looks unnatural. The book is a #1 Amazon bestseller, but those rankings have become so watered down it has become meaningless to me (though I appreciate, a regular visitor to the web doesn't care). The book is #1 in the Politics & Social Sciences > Sociology > Marriage & Family category. In the old days, the book would have been #1 in across all book. Right now it is #74, not too shabby but not nearly the same impact as in previous years. Perhaps mainstream media is tied up covering the elections and the platforms covering books have simply been crowded out by everything else.

Yeah, I can't get bend out of shape about the historical inaccuracies of a movie that does not bill itself as a documentary. The problem is that many people are educated by films designed to entertain rather than educate, and they end up being misinformed. But I imagine some readers will pick up a book to learn more about the real Nat Turner.

Feminists and misogynists represent the extreme opposites when it come to views on many subjects. I suspect that the women dissing "The Birth of a Nation" are women from the feminist community. The film obviously has merit or it wouldn't have received critical praise, and it should not be totally dismissed because it offends certain females. Somewhere in the middle is probably the fairest assessment of this work. Nate Parker's acquittal of rape charges and his subsequent "repentance" count for something. Everybody makes mistakes. And women often cry "rape" to either to gain something from doing so or to feign innocence when caught in compromising positions. Rape inspires such a knee jerk reaction, that it's hard to sort out. In my personal estimation, there's a difference between a female being sexually assaulted by a stranger, and the molestation of a provocative, sloppy drunk girl, voluntarily in the the company of horny young male acquaintances with no self-control. "No, doesn't mean "no" if you are too intoxicated to utter it. I know, I know, I'm making light of a serious subject; always a hazard when you are seeking the truth. And of course, my cynical attitude is why many women don't come forward after being violated under such circumstances because they end up becoming even more stressed from being made to feel that they are partly to blame for what happened when boys were being dogs. Non-consensual sex is invariable a "he did/she did" dilemma. Hollywood favorites, Roman Polanski and Woody Allen come to mind as 2 celebs Hollywood perennially excused from accusations of their past "inappropriate behavior" with young girls. So Nate is not the first and will not be the last. Recently NBA star, Derrick Rose, beat the rape charges brought against him by a former girlfriend. High profile athletes seem to be particularly prone to such incidents. And, along these lines, Rolling Stone magazine is currently involved in a law suit for running a story about an anonymous college coed claiming to have been gang raped at a University of Virginia frat house. Her story turned out to be concocted and the repercussions from this have tainted the reputations of Rolling Stone, who had to print a retraction of it, the journalist who wrote the story, and a U. of Va. Dean who was crucified on social media for her handling of the case, and who is also the person suing this magazine. Dirty business.

No, I hadn't. But now I have. So let me get this straight........... The author is angry because Black slave women were "inaccurately" being portrayed as having been raped by White men, and even angrier because Black men were shown coming to their rescue??? Excuse my language but what kind of BACKWARD fucked up bullshit "logic" is that????? Man! I've heard many women and even a few historians complain about the realities of sexual abuse NOT being portrayed or addressed but never have I heard someone come out and actually take issue with it BEING addressed and claim it didn't happen! As far as I'm concerned, THIS statement says it all about the mindset of it's author: "This is the story that deserves to be told, not one that disseminates archaic and damaging myths that cast black men as courageous saviors and black women as helpless victims." Apparently, she feels that Black men being courages and saving their own people has got to be a "myth". It couldn't have really happened. Black men? Black men loving their women and children so much that they were willing to fight and die for them???? Naw....... According to the author of THAT article, "that must have been a fabrication by some Black man trying to compensate for his own guilt or inferiority complex at the expense of Black women or something." Half of the article features her contradicting herself by condemning the portrayal of Black men as warriors and saviors while just a few paragraphs down hoping for more movies that portray the resillience and fighting spirit of slaves. Dr Alexander's irrational article STILL doesn't change my position that this movie shouldn't be evaluated for it's historical content. She has a doctorate in the field of history so ofcourse she's going to notice every single "historical" inaccuracy, but she shouldn't assume everyone is going to look at a movie from the view of a historian as herself. Movies were made for entertainment and it's up to the audience to do their own research for their own educational benefit. However I believe her criticisms of this film actually betray a more ulterior motive..... That her real problem is LESS about the historical inaccuracies of the film itself, but MORE about her lack of confidence and respect for Black men and their historical accomplishments.