Chadwick Boseman: ‘Black Panther’ Will Reflect Black America

This year at Comic-Con the massive crowds spilling across downtown San Diego were peppered with shirts emblazoned with three deafening words, in a banner year for diversity at the pop culture conference: “Black Heroes Matter.” After spending a whirlwind weekend pressing the flesh in his first trip to Comic-Con, Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman was delighted by the grassroots geek campaign. The actor, director, and writer isn’t afraid to use his own social media to highlight issues of representation in Hollywood and the Black Lives Matter movement, two causes that overlapped Saturday as thousands of people flocked to the annual confab.

"...creating new characters, instead of appropriating existing ones..."

You probably know this already, but appropriating a current symbol and defacing, degrading,and eventually destroying what it originally was, is a standard leftist tactic.

They could create their own, but...who would, in their right mind, be interested in it?

Take the Rainbow, for example.

It now stands uniquely for homosexuality, where its original meaning (besides being something beautiful to behold in nature) was God's covenant after The Great Flood to mankind.

Look what it stands for now.

Now, if the homosexual community had simply created their own "symbol", what on earth would that be? Most people would be revolted by it, most likely, or have no interest in it at all.

But, because the left/homosexual community has appropriated the rainbow, it has lost all of its original meaning for the vast majority of the population. (If you don't believe me (and I say this rhetorically) try doing a man on the street interview with random passerby, and show them a rainbow flag and a picture of the stylized rainbow, and ask them what it stands for. It won't be God's Covenant, or a beautiful feature of nature after a rainstorm...)

They do the same thing with the word "gay" which used to be a perfectly functional word to describe a wonderful mental state of being. Now, the word has been appropriated and can no longer be used in its original meaning at all. Sad.

So yes, not only do they escape having to engage the creative process to produce their own creation, they get the double satisfaction of destroying it for the people to whom it might have meant something completely different.

The character Black Panther is an African prince who has as much in common with the BLM folks as the author of this PC drivel.

My thought exactly. Before I got past the headline, my thought was, "he is African, not African-American". As much as people in the US want to think there is a similarity, I can assure you the similarity is almost exclusively skin color and even that is debatable.

I had a roommate for 2 years from Tanzania who was here for college and returned to Tanzania after he finished. In less than a week of being in the US for the first time in his life, he signed off all black people and told me that "they were NOT Africans and they were NOT his brothers." No matter what black American's want to think, if they go and visit a country in Africa, they'll find out quickly just how different they are.

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