We have seen many examples of the mania of diversity, of forced equality and he rewriting of history, but this takes the cake, as Anne of a Thousand Days is portrayed by a Black, when she was not. You see, multiracial ideology requires rewriting history, but only white history, as only whites are being replaced. It is not called the Great Replacement for nothing.
“A British TV channel is producing a costume drama about Anne Boleyn, who was the second wife of King Henry VIII of England back in the 16th century. Henry's first wife, Catherine, had not been able to give him a male heir, so he had his marriage to her annulled in 1533 and married Anne. The issue of the annulment was what drove Henry to break with the Pope.
When Anne likewise failed to produce a male heir after three years of marriage, Henry had her charged with adultery and executed. The charges were most likely bogus, but that was the end of Anne; although, in a nice instance of generational revenge, her daughter later became Queen Elizabeth the First, a much better monarch than Henry.
Well, this TV channel is producing a drama about Anne, to be aired at some future date not specified. The actress playing Anne will be Jodie Turner-Smith, a full-blood negress. [Jodie Turner-Smith plays Anne Boleyn in new Channel 5 drama that seeks to 'challenge conventions' by casting black actress as Henry VIII's executed wife and 'shine a feminist light' on her story Daily Mail, December 18, 2020] And no, they're not making her put on white-face makeup.
This is of course historically preposterous. Anne Boleyn was a white English lady—we have contemporary portraits of her.
The producers of historical dramas—including this one, I'm guessing—go to great pains and expense to make everything look authentic: costumes, furnishings, weapons, transportation….We want the illusion of reality. No producer would have the Duke of Norfolk drive up to Henry VIII's hunting lodge in a Lamborghini and carrying an AR-15.
The classic Henry VIII TV biopic was an earlier British production: The Six Wives of Henry VIII, aired in 1971. Keith Mitchell played the part of Henry, and he played him with red hair. Why? Because Henry VIII had red hair, duh. That was fifty years ago, though, when we still had some common sense.
So what's the point of this gross, glaring anachronism—a negress playing Anne Boleyn? Let the producers tell us, quote from the news story:
"Producers Fable Pictures say the drama challenges all the conventions of who we think Anne Boleyn was and shines a feminist light on her story."
They're challenging conventions, see? Down with conventions!
What they are actually challenging, of course, is historical truth.
So: Down with historical truth!
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." If you're in any doubt about who controls the present, try starting an online protest movement against this casting decision. Then watch your PayPal account close down, and your Twitter account, your Facebook account, your bank account, your credit-card accounts, …
"Hold on there, Derb," I hear you cry. "Didn't you cover a similar story back in November, about a black actress playing Agent 007 in the new James Bond movie? And didn't you say you were fine with it?"
Yes and yes. However,
- that's fiction, where you can make stuff up. In historical dramas you should cleave to the historical truth as closely as you can.
- there is nothing implausible about a present-day intelligence agency having a black female operative; and if, as seems to be the case, James Bond is retired in this movie, or dead, or otherwise indisposed, there's nothing implausible about giving the lady his agent number. So yes, I'm fine with it.
What I am not fine with is halfwit producers committing gross historical falsehoods in order to signal that they are faithful congregants of the Most Holy and Blessed Church of Negritude.
I am not fine with lies and hypocrisy.
Of course, the charge of hypocrisy there is presumptive. I'm presuming that these producers, in their private lives—in their residential and educational decisions—stay as far away from big concentrations of black people as everyone else does that can afford to.”
The really big question is whether producers will make this metaphysics of affirmative action and diversity to the next consistent level and portray white villains of history, and you can make your own list, as maybe Black or non-white? I bet they won’t! Not the guts or consistency.
Whites must stop assuming that they have a country, and that applies right across the West, not just obvious examples like the UK, USA and South Africa.
https://vdare.com/articles/americans-stop-assuming-you-still-have-a-country-organize
“We’re already in the post-American age and arbitrary law enforcement, restrictions on free speech, and mob justice are just the beginning. There will be no negative consequences for those who destroyed American cities via misguided policies and Leftist protests. Instead, the government will center on the Dissident Right the same way the Soviets did on kulaks: as the “wreckers” that are the one thing that is holding us back from egalitarian utopia. American “conservatism” will not be able to respond to this challenge because it is incapable (or unwilling) to recognize that the problem we face is here, not in Moscow or Beijing. My views: for now, Americans must geographically concentrate, establish as much economic independence as possible, politically mobilize for universal access to government programs, and expand their autonomy as much as possible while new institutions and movements are created.
We’re getting a sneak peek at what’s coming with the clearly coordinated Main Stream Media coverage of the Proud Boys at the recent Stop The Steal rally in Washington D.C. Your tax dollars subsidized an article from NPR that said “the widespread embrace of conspiracy and disinformation amounts to ‘mass radicalization’” that will lead to terrorism [Right-Wing Embrace of Conspiracy Is ‘Mass Radicalization,’ Experts Warn, by Hannah Allam, December 15, 2020]. There were many other slanted stories about the violence accompanying the protests:
- Pro-Trump rally descends into chaos as Proud Boys roam D.C. looking to fight, by Peter Herman, Marissa Lang, and Clarence Williams, Washington Post, December 13, 2020
- Several people stabbed and 33 arrested as ‘Stop the Steal’ protesters and counterprotesters clash in Washington, DC by Lauren Koenig, CNN, December 13, 2020
- Police Arrest Suspect In D.C. Stabbing Outside Extremist Proud Boys’ Favorite Bar, by Ayra Hodjat, Daily Beast, December 13, 2020
There’s an obvious question here. Who did the stabbing? Naturally, most of the stories don’t report it—they simply associate “Proud Boys” and “stabbing.”
However, after some digging, you can find photo evidence that the Proud Boys appeared to be the victims here. The man arrested for stabbing is African-American. Of course, an arrest is not proof of guilt [Philip Johnson Accused in Four Washington D.C. Stabbings at Pro Trump Protest, by Jessica McBride, Heavy, December 13, 2020]. However, we do know that at least one of the victims was a Trump supporter—revealed in a Minneapolis StarTribune article that basically reads like a dox [Twin Cities man among Proud Boys demonstrators in D.C. is stabbed, police say, by Paul Walsh, December 15, 2020].
As Michelle Malkin noted, there was also widespread media coverage of several Black Lives Matter signs being burned during the D.C. disturbances. Now of course, stealing a church sign and burning it is a crime. It is property destruction. It should be punished. Yet it’s the MSM which has been lecturing us about why property destruction should either be tolerated, or, indeed, encouraged.
- Black Lives Matter More Than Property, by Malcolm Glenn, New America, June 5, 2020
- 9 Historical Triumphs to Make You Rethink Property Destruction, by Jesse Myerson and Jose Martin, Rolling Stone, May 29, 2020
- In Defense of Destroying Property, by R.H. Lossin, The Nation, June 10, 2020
President Trump said he would ban flag burning. But he did not. Burning the American flag is barely even noticeable now.
In contrast, BLM, a movement which most people hadn’t even heard of a year ago, now has quasi-religious importance. It even has a communion of saints—Breonna Taylor, Jacob Blake, Mike Brown, George Floyd—and foundational myths that resemble something like a new religion than a political creed [BLMania and the New Progressive Faith, by Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, December 17, 2020]. Thus, burning BLM signs isn’t just property destruction, it’s blasphemy.
Blacks are also becoming a semi-sovereign people, already enjoying government privileges and now even symbolic gestures like their own “national anthem.”
The West is set to become, South Africa, on steroids and growth hormone.