I graze a bit on NPR, mostly to find material. Let’s just say it’s a “target rich environment”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The network has a couple of shows – chock full of vaguely-black sounding accents and topics, slathered over the same progressivized-for-your-protection content they provide the other 162 hours a week, shows like “It’s Been a Minute” and “The Takeaway”, that seem to try to address, not so much the “black” audience, but NPR’s huge, relentlessly white progressive audience, apparently to make them feel, if not “more authentic”, at least a little less guilty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I’m here to bring the guilt back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In recent months, I’ve heard 2-3 shows on the relentlessly woke networks – interviewing the stars of the movie “The Woman King”, an “afrocentric feminist” story about a sub-Saharan kingdom’s unit of female warriors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The movie – and the gushy, smarmy, self-congratulatory interviews – gabble and prate on and on about female power and empowerment and inspiration and enough word salad to unstop a cement colon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What doesn’t get mentioned? The real life “warrior women’s” main military and economic justification; procuring slaves to sell. They were a revenue-generation tool for the Dahomey monarchy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Go ahead. Tell me where the slavery talk is. I’ll wait. <\/p>\n\n\n\n