Merry Old England is getting a woke makeover once again, courtesy of Netflix.
First, they showed us that Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn, was black. Oh, you didn’t hear about this? Feast your eyes and weep (we’ve embedded a link to a woke apologia for the silliness just for you!):
Then came “Bridgerton,” another Netflix series that “reimagined” Regency England as a multicultural playland populated by as many black or mixed-race people, including royalty, as there were actual native white Britons. For reference, there were only estimated to be 15,000 blacks in all of England at the end of the 18th century – while the first Census in 1801 put England’s total population at 8.3 million, making this minority only 0.18% of the population at the time – in reality.
Now, Netflix brings us another bold, imaginative, and not-at-all-insulting-or-pandering series set in early modern England that blacks-up and gays-up actual historical figures who were neither. Readers, you’re going to think I’m joking. You’re going to think, “surely, they cannot go this far.”
I am not joking. They have gone this far.
Netflix has made King Edward VI, son of Henry VIII, a gay black man in a wheelchair. And it’s a wheelchair that looks like someone stole it from the set of The Hobbit.
The show is called “My Lady Jane,” (you can see a trailer below) and it purports to tell the story of the tumultuous and brief nine days’ “rule” of Lady Jane Grey in 1553. Funny how no historians until now have mentioned that the son of Henry Tudor was somehow, inexplicably, a black African who just happened to have wheelchair access, too.
The motivation is probably implied by the title: “MY Lady Jane.” The woke believe that they are entitled to rewrite the world to reflect themselves, personally. How many times do we hear young blue hairs complaining that a TV show or movie “doesn’t have anyone who looks like me?” Pathological narcissism masquerades as normal small talk in the 21st century.
Here’s what really happened. When the boy King Edward VII (son of Henry VIII) sickened, he and an advisor cooked up a plan to take away the throne from its rightful heir, Edward’s half-sister Mary Tudor. He added a device to his will naming a cousin, Jane Grey, as his heir, and he did this to stop his Catholic sister Mary from being crowned and undoing the Protestant Reformation begun by his father.
The plot failed, and Mary took the throne, eventually executing 16-year-old Jane Grey (she was forced into accepting the crown by her scheming older relatives).
It’s anyone’s guess if the younger generations would know any of this history enough to be bothered by the ludicrous portrayal of a black African as a king of Tudor England. But as always, people on social media aren’t shy about sharing their views.
There’s always one wokie who dishonestly pretends not to understand what “everyone’s so upset about.”
This fellow naively believes that when it comes to black and white race issues, that what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
Ernst has a smashing idea for a groundbreaking cinematic reimagining.
Do you remember back about a month ago when Google’s new Gemini AI system made every historical character non-white, including the Vikings? User Aesthetica does!
Readers, I don’t know about you, but this one sums it up for me.
