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We, LITERALLY, wuz kangs
Posted on 2/20/21 at 1:04 pm
Posted on 2/20/21 at 1:04 pm
In Haiti. For a whole 9 fricking years.
She's bitching that they made white historical characters black in the series Bridgerton, when they wuz actually kangs elsewhere.
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She's bitching that they made white historical characters black in the series Bridgerton, when they wuz actually kangs elsewhere.
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Marlene L. Daut is Professor of African Diaspora Studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865 and the forthcoming, The First and Last King of Haiti (Knopf/Pantheon).
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In fact, watching how Bridgerton uses uncanny blackness in a desperate attempt to fill the void left by the overwhelming whiteness of Quinn’s novels, I kept thinking how easy it would have been instead to draw upon the many complexities of elite Black life in the nineteenth century—the kind that was at the heart of the Caribbean’s only modern Black kingdom. Created by Henry Christophe, a former general of the Haitian Revolution, Haiti’s first and last king reigned over the northern part of the country for the entire period commonly defined as the regency: 1811 to 1820.
If people want to see Black aristocracy on screen, then why not just put them in nineteenth-century Haiti where they really lived?
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Posted on 2/20/21 at 1:06 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
These are pathetically sad people.
Posted on 2/20/21 at 1:07 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
Posted on 2/20/21 at 1:08 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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Haiti’s first and last king reigned over the northern part of the country for the entire period commonly defined as the regency: 1811 to 1820.
A decade long monarchy. That’s gotta be some kind of record.
Posted on 2/20/21 at 1:08 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
Siri, what is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere?
Siri, was Haiti once a rich country?
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Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, with a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita of US$797 and a Human Development Index ranking of 169 out of 189 countries in 2019.Oct 20, 2020
Siri, was Haiti once a rich country?
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Before Haiti established its independence from French administration in 1804, Haiti ranked as the world's richest and most productive colony.
Posted on 2/20/21 at 1:09 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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If people want to see Black aristocracy on screen, then why not just put them in nineteenth-century Haiti where they really lived?
And they can show us how to really frick up a country
Posted on 2/20/21 at 1:15 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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Siri, what is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere?
It's Venezuela now.
Posted on 2/20/21 at 1:21 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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In fact, watching how Bridgerton uses uncanny blackness in a desperate attempt to fill the void left by the overwhelming whiteness of Quinn’s novels
That moment when you realize trying to be less white was actually being too white
Posted on 2/20/21 at 1:37 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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Henry Christophe
Ruled over an area smaller than 48 states, basically reintroduced slavery, and committed suicide because of how unpopular his rule was. There would be riots if Hollywood told the truth about him
Posted on 2/20/21 at 1:43 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
I was one of the first to step into Port-au-Prince after the earthquake.
Haitians are, uh, interesting.
Haitians are, uh, interesting.
Posted on 2/20/21 at 1:51 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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In fact, watching how Bridgerton uses uncanny blackness in a desperate attempt to fill the void left by the overwhelming whiteness of Quinn’s novels, I kept thinking how easy it would have been instead to draw upon the many complexities of elite Black life in the nineteenth century—the kind that was at the heart of the Caribbean’s only modern Black kingdom. Created by Henry Christophe, a former general of the Haitian Revolution, Haiti’s first and last king reigned over the northern part of the country for the entire period commonly defined as the regency: 1811 to 1820.
So, a petty dictator that eventually doomed his country to a future of poverty and pain?
Posted on 2/20/21 at 1:58 pm to diremustang
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diremustang
Posted on 2/20/21 at 2:02 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
I always knew we was kangs and queens
Posted on 2/20/21 at 2:28 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
The whole “we wuz kangz” mentality is so bizarre.
First of all most of the Kangz they reference were Egyptian anyway, or Ethiopian at best, which is East African more than sub-Saharan African.
Basically as different a people as the Magyars were to the Gauls.
And the kings they could possibly, distantly be related to were ones that SOLD the slaves...
But, they weren’t.
They wasn’t kangz. They was soldiers and serfs and slaves
First of all most of the Kangz they reference were Egyptian anyway, or Ethiopian at best, which is East African more than sub-Saharan African.
Basically as different a people as the Magyars were to the Gauls.
And the kings they could possibly, distantly be related to were ones that SOLD the slaves...
But, they weren’t.
They wasn’t kangz. They was soldiers and serfs and slaves
Posted on 2/20/21 at 2:31 pm to fr33manator
I can’t imagine giving a frick that someone in history, that I’m not even related to, was some type of royalty - with the only connection being some thin racial bond.
Posted on 2/20/21 at 2:50 pm to fr33manator
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They was soldiers and serfs and slaves
Just as virtually all honkies were, back in the day.
Posted on 2/20/21 at 3:39 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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Marlene L. Daut is Professor of African Diaspora Studies at the University of Virginia
That is a whole lot of useless.
Posted on 2/20/21 at 3:48 pm to Ace Midnight
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Just as virtually all honkies were, back in the day.
Absolutely true. I’m not claiming we wuz kangz, though.
Posted on 2/20/21 at 3:55 pm to High C
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A decade long monarchy. That’s gotta be some kind of record.
"They ruled this one acre for about a week. Nobody knew."
Posted on 2/20/21 at 4:31 pm to fr33manator
Nubia conquered and ruled Egypt at one time. Timbuktu was indeed an academic center of Africa until Morocco shoved its shite in.
But that’s life, and ancient history. No such thing as “back-sies”. These people are deranged.
But that’s life, and ancient history. No such thing as “back-sies”. These people are deranged.
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