Hollywood slave-rebellion movie battles rape accusations

Embattled black filmmaker Nate Parker’s Hollywood slave-rebellion drama had hoped to cross $10 million in its debut, but is losing badly in the box-office race.

Sundance Film Festival darling Birth of a Nation debuted to a disappointing $7 million from 2 105 theaters, after dismay surfaced over Parker’s involvement in a 1999 rape incident.

His period anti-white drama was never going to be a tough sell to disgruntled black audiences, but the news of the rape trial complicated matters for Fox Searchlight. The movie’s muted opening could further damage the film’s awards chances.

Birth of a Nation, Parker’s directorial debut ignited a bidding war at the Sundance Film Festival in January, resulting in a record $17.5 million sale to Fox Searchlight.

The movie centering on the Nat Turner slave rebellion of 1831, seemed to display the ideal anti-white racial bias widely viewed by the mainstream media as an obvious Oscar contender.

But Parker has come under fire over a 1999 trial in which he and his black friend, Jean Celestin, who later co-wrote Birth of a Nation, were accused of raping a classmate at Penn State University.

While Celestin was convicted, Parker, who maintained the sex was consensual, was acquitted. But just days after Parker made new comments about the rape trial in interviews, it was revealed that the accuser committed suicide in 2012.

The slaughter in 1831 of whites by black slaves, has been marketed as an urgent call to rise up against whites and eerily includes scenes to mimic the current outrage over fatal police shootings of black men in the US and Black Lives Matter protests.

Fox Searchlight, is now funding outreach programs in African-American communities to avoid such liability. They claim the aim is not for blacks to rise up and kill white people as is shown in the film, but instead to “rise up to build affordable housing”.

The movie version of Nat Turner is most likely a fraud as Turner was someone who felt compelled to “destroy the white race” in his own words, and not a righteous defender of his race or anti-slavery measures.

This film, much like the George Soros funded BLM movement, is a blatant attempt to incite African-Americans to attack whites through false narratives and manipulative propaganda, as very few black men are killed by white policemen in the United States. According to national statistics, proportionally speaking, police kill more whites than blacks in fatal shootings.