Re the movie ALEXANDER

[Tehuti-4]

The trailer for the new blockbuster film, “Alexander,� dramatically proclaims that by age 31 Alexander the Great had conquered “the known world.� The known world to whom?! Millennia before Alexander was born or Greece and Macedonia, as organized states, even existed, Africans had entered and settled Europe; the Aborigines had left the Indus River Valley and colonized their present homes in Australia and the adjacent islands; and the Native Americans had established themselves in the Americas. Undoubtedly the known world and “the known world� of Hellenic society were two completely different things, but what people with melanin knew is never important in historical terms. The world is what the white purview defines it.
Alexander conquered an unbelievable slice of the globe indeed, (from his home in the area of present-day Yugoslavia, as far East as Northern India, and as far south as much of Egypt) but “the known world�? Come on now. What happened to the gigantic mass of Africa below and west of Egypt, the Americas, and Asia, including, the mammoth, China, Mongolia, and the rest of the Indian subcontinent? These areas, which dwarf the size of Alexander’s empire, were teeming with people living, thriving, doin they thing. The film and his-tory give the impression they virtually didn’t exist just because they didn’t interact with white, Mediterranean society.
Even if the film itself gets everything else wrong, the film’s preview is historically accurate in its erasure of most non-white people from and their achievements in antiquity.
Too bad I’m not going to spend money to view the movie because I would love to see if it depicts Alexander as anything close to the cold, murderous, vengeful character that he was. Funny how western society romanticizes gross, white violence as courageous, honorable, even providential, while it depicts violence amongst us as senseless, outrageous, and primitive. A white boy with a sword or a rifle is a hero. A black one with a gun is an ape; with a spear he is a monkey.
Has anyone else but me noticed that all one needs for a Hollywood blockbuster are a white man, that white women find attractive, to wield a sword, a lily-white actress to play a princess, and the cast to speak with British accents?
Where are all the black directors to do a remake of Shaka Zulu or the story of Toussaint L’Ouverture

[rebelAfrika]

I'm trying to see a movie called "Hannibal of Carthage" (picture the scenes when the Africans come riding in on Elephants!!!)...or maybe "Askia the Great"....or maybe "Tariq" (the African general who they named the rock of Gibralter after)....or "Nat Turner." But the thing is, I need somebody to want to take this idea and run with it. I tell every film student I know about my ideas for these movies so that they can STEAL my idea and make the movie. I don't care if my idea is stolen though. I think that seeing one of the above movies come out is more important than who gets the credit for them. So spread the word. Put it out there. Tell EVERYBODY..."you know what I would like to see? I would really like to see a movie depicting an ACCURATE ACOUNT of the life of Hannibal of Carthage (if you don't say ACCURATE ACCOUNT, they will make Hannibal WHITE, LOL) or something like that.

[New Dwaben Chief]

You know what would be a good movie Queen Nzingha of Angola. They could really make that film be something special, portraying the queen as a warrior leader who fought against slavery. The fact that she united all Angolans as one, and eradicated tribalism could really hit home to a lot of people.

[OKULAJA]

The Candaces of Meroe (332 B.C.- 12 AD).



Most scholars would dismiss the accounts of Herodotus, Strabo, and Diodorous as compelling evidence to support the existence of women warriors in Africa, although all three ancient writers have proved accurate in the great majority of their testable observations about life in the centuries before Christ. As time progresses, the evidence supporting the presence of a tradition of African women warriors grows in its persuasiveness.



An impressive series of Ethiopian warrior queens, queen regents, and queen mothers, known as kentakes (Greek: Candace), are only appearing to the light of history through the ongoing deciphering of the Merotic script. They controlled what is now Ethiopia, Sudan, and parts of Egypt. One of the earliest references to the kentakes comes from 332 B.C. when Alexander the Great set his sights on the rich kingdom of Ethiopia.



The presiding kentakes, known in history as "Black Queen Candace of Ethiopia," designed a battle plan to counter Alexander's advance. She placed her armies and waited on a war elephant for the Macedonian conqueror to appear for battle. Alexander approached the field from a low ridge, but when he saw the Black Queen's army displayed in a brilliant military formation before him, he stopped. After studying the array of warriors waiting with such deadly precision and realizing that to challenge the kentakes could quite possibly be fatal, he turned his armies away from Ethiopia toward a successful campaign in Egypt.



Bas-reliefs dated to about 170 B.C. reveal kentakes Shanakdakheto, dressed in armor and wielding a spear in battle. She did not rule as queen regent or queen mother but as a fully independent ruler. Her husband was her consort. In bas-reliefs found in the ruines of building projects she commissioned, Shanakdakheto is portrayed both alone as well as with her husband and son, who would inherit the throne by her passing. The following African queens were known to the Greco-Roman world as the "Candaces": Amanirenas, Amanishakhete, Amanitore, Nawidemak, and Malegereabar.



A hundred and fifty years after Alexander was repelled by the Black Queen, the Romans, under Patronius, the Roman governor of Egypt in 30 B.C., tried to conquer Ethiopia, and again a kentakes stopped them. Queen Amanirenas neutralized Patronius's army, defeating his garrison at Cyrene, and drove the Roman legions northward. Not only did the Romans fail to take her country, Queen Amanirenas took parts of theirs. A wall painting depicts her, armed with bow and arrows and spear, holding a tether attached to seven captives.



The kentakes of Ethiopia left many monuments to themselves. Amanishakhete, Amanitore, Nawidemak, and Malegereabar commissioned numerous bas-reliefs in the ancient site at Naqa, picturing them armed with one and two swords, battling lions, and subduing enemy war leaders.



Jones, David E., Women Warriors: A History, Brasseys, Inc.; (March 1, 2000)

[IfasehunReincarnated]

we know they can't face our domination of their classical civilizations. lol

[OKULAJA]

We should all make flyers explaining how he ran from Our Queen and distribute them opening night.

[OKULAJA]

He not only ran from the African, but a WOMAN. That would really fukk with their fragile faggot-ass egos. Bytches.

[Im The Truth]

You always come through, I'm have to send that article out!

[AfricanGlory]

Alexander the homo was a egotistical bastard with strong ambiton to kill and conquer. But, that doesn't make him a warrior, he indulged in self-glorification. When he went to egypt, he felt inferior when he couldn't understand what he saw in egypt, so he except it for what it was but still had impious aggression towards the people of egypt. IN OTHER WORDS, FUCK ALEXANDER THE FAGGOT.

BLACK POWER


p.s-passion of christ got me pissed but now I'm really pissed, PISSED!!!

[OKULAJA]

Feel free to distribute if you'd like or make your own...

ALEXANDER THE “GREAT� CHUMPED BY AN
AFRICAN QUEEN


Alexander is merely another display of this country’s racist White Power Structure’s glorification of rapists, robbers, and murderers. The Celebration of Christopher Columbus, the ‘Founding Fathers’ of this country (all slave owners), even the Thanksgiving Holiday itself glorifies their undying tradition of killing and conquering. We continue to see this as the U.S. continues to wage this so-called “War on Terrorism� which is merely a war on the world’s Oppressed and Colonized People. Over 100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in its illegal war in Iraq for population and resource control.


Alexander did not conquer the ‘known world’. The following excerpt will document this:

The Candaces of Meroe (332 B.C.- 12 AD).

“An impressive series of Ethiopian warrior queens, queen regents, and queen mothers, known as kentakes (Greek: Candace), are only appearing to the light of history through the ongoing deciphering of the Merotic script. They controlled what is now Ethiopia, Sudan, and parts of Egypt. One of the earliest references to the kentakes comes from 332 B.C. when Alexander the Great set his sights on the rich kingdom of Ethiopia.

The presiding kentakes, known in history as "Black Queen Candace of Ethiopia," designed a battle plan to counter Alexander's advance. She placed her armies and waited on a war elephant for the Macedonian conqueror to appear for battle. Alexander approached the field from a low ridge, but when he saw the Black Queen's army displayed in a brilliant military formation before him, he stopped. After studying the array of warriors waiting with such deadly precision and realizing that to challenge the kentakes could quite possibly be fatal, he turned his armies away from Ethiopia toward a successful campaign in Egypt.

A hundred and fifty years after Alexander was repelled by the Black Queen, the Romans, under Patronius, the Roman governor of Egypt in 30 B.C., tried to conquer Ethiopia, and again a kentakes stopped them. Queen Amanirenas neutralized Patronius's army, defeating his garrison at Cyrene, and drove the Roman legions northward. Not only did the Romans fail to take her country, Queen Amanirenas took parts of theirs. A wall painting depicts her, armed with bow and arrows and spear, holding a tether attached to seven captives.�

Jones, David E., Women Warriors: A History, Brasseys, Inc.; (March 1, 2000)

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[Tehuti-4]

I've always felt the perfect story for the big screen was the autobiography of Assata Shakur. Even had a few sisters in mind that could play the role. Talk about protagonist!!

[OKULAJA]

Originally Posted by tehuti-4

I've always felt the perfect story for the big screen was the autobiography of Assata Shakur. Even had a few sisters in mind that could play the role. Talk about protagonist!!

What actresses do u have in mind?

[Tehuti-4]

1)Phyllis Yvonne Strickney

2)Angela Bassett

3)Tyra Ferrell

4)Paula Kelly

I'm sure there are any number of actors that you never hear of that could do the role justice, but these are just a few you might have heard of.