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Black Panther is for film what Barack Obama was for the presidency
CNN ^ | February 9, 2018 | Issac Bailey

Posted on 02/11/2018 6:13:29 AM PST by C19fan

For a few hours starting next weekend, black America will exhale, something it has not done since the Republican Party chose as its presidential nominee a man who rose to national political prominence on open bigotry and 58% of white voters made him President. For a few hours, it will be a veritable black American holiday, a kind of revival in the middle of Black History Month and the second year of the Donald Trump era.

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TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: blackpanther; comics; movies; race
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To: C19fan

Articles like this just make me sad. About the state of the country, about humanity in general. I wish there was an easy way to disabuse people like this of their delusions. I do hope the writer enjoys the movie...


21 posted on 02/11/2018 6:47:59 AM PST by sam_whiskey (Peace through Strength.)
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To: gaijin

Citations: “Ancient African Kingdoms” - Margaret Shinnie; “A Short History of Africa” - Roland Oliver & JD Fage; “East Africa: A Search For Unity” - AJ Hughes


22 posted on 02/11/2018 6:48:37 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: C19fan
"...Black Panther is for film what Barack Obama was for the presidency..."

A total box office failure and disaster for the profession of filmmaking? (like a total electoral failure and disaster for the office of the Presidency) I can agree with that.

23 posted on 02/11/2018 6:48:41 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: C19fan
Best meme on it so far:

Hey White People, let's all go to the Black Panther movie and talk loudly throughout the entire film.

24 posted on 02/11/2018 6:52:31 AM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: C19fan
Exactly the reason I wouldn't waste a farthing on this movie. It's not a movie; it's a political statement, whether that was its intent or not.

And I'm not going to feed the racial grievance monster.

25 posted on 02/11/2018 6:54:18 AM PST by IronJack (A)
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To: C19fan
A notably dumb and racist article.

As a Marvel fan, I am cringing about how SJWs might have already ruined this movie.

26 posted on 02/11/2018 6:54:26 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: C19fan

Never seen so much hype for a movie before.


27 posted on 02/11/2018 6:55:57 AM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: C19fan

I put this movie in the same category as those movies that show a female warrior kicking the a$$ of every man in sight. It is propaganda put out by Hollywood to show us how things ain’t. I can’t totally fault them for that as much of what they put out is fantasy anyway. However, there will be some people who will walk away believing some aspect of it. The world will always have its share of Kool-Aid drinkers.


28 posted on 02/11/2018 6:56:25 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: C19fan

I was going to say “Shaft Goes to Africa” but this reboot of the blaxploitation genre was shot in Atlanta...and a car chase sequence in South Korea?! Why weren’t the cast & crew braving the heat, humidity, and disease of Equatorial Africa and giving their brothas & sistas some economic benefit? The Kingdom of Wakanda is on the Dark Continent, not in Georgia, right? Phony baloney.


29 posted on 02/11/2018 6:57:16 AM PST by nickedknack
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To: C19fan
black America

Because all people with dark skin and sub-saharan African features think alike, act alike, have the same interests. The supreme human characteristic, above all else, is skin color.

So says this idiot author.

And he has the insufferable gall to call OTHER people racist and bigoted.

30 posted on 02/11/2018 6:58:30 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: C19fan
black America

Because all people with dark skin and sub-saharan African features think alike, act alike, have the same interests. The supreme human characteristic, above all else, is skin color.

So says this idiot author.

And he has the insufferable gall to call OTHER people racist and bigoted.

31 posted on 02/11/2018 6:58:32 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Black Panther is for film what Barack Obama was for the presidency:

I actually agree with the headline. Disaster and Disaster.

32 posted on 02/11/2018 6:59:40 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: PIF

“costal African civilizations were well developed and ahead of anything in Europe at the time”

You just went too far, I call BS on that one.


33 posted on 02/11/2018 7:01:04 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: relictele
Does Black Panther promise us if we like our doctor we can keep him?

Does he spy on rivals for the throne of Wakanda?

Lol. If you like your shaman, you may keep your shaman.

Black Panther was also involved in the Vibranium One deal scandal.

34 posted on 02/11/2018 7:01:29 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: C19fan

Hate that superhero stuff.


35 posted on 02/11/2018 7:04:45 AM PST by barbarianbabs
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To: PIF; gaijin
Actually when Portuguese explorers arrived in sub-Saharan Africa, there were numerous cities all built of wood; there was fresh water piped into homes as well as a sewer system - the pipes were made out of wood. The Portuguese Empire was the crown of European Civilization at the time. The explorers sent word back to the Crown asking permission to remain as the living conditions were so much better in those cities (running water in home and sewers were unknown in all of Europe then).

However, with the introduction of the trade of firearms to local mussulman slavers the cities were raided and destroyed. The jungle destroyed what remained.

People need to remember that prior to the mussulman conquest in the 7th and 8th centuries northern and costal African civilizations were well developed and ahead of anything in Europe at the time. After the conquest, nothing remained and people were reduced to savagery and squalor, the condition they remained in when the slave trade expanded to the Americas.

Thanks for the clarification. The moment I read it, I knew that gaijin's characterization was a little too tidy. There's no need for such exaggeration...

36 posted on 02/11/2018 7:05:41 AM PST by sargon ("If the President doesn't drain the Swamp, the Swamp will drain the President.")
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To: raccoonradio

100% on Rotten Tomatoes
I think the fix is in!


37 posted on 02/11/2018 7:06:03 AM PST by barbarianbabs
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To: C19fan

The honky lib kids in the “media” are pimping this one hard.


38 posted on 02/11/2018 7:06:12 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: C19fan

I saw the previews for this film yesterday. Told my friend I’d have to be paid to sit through it.


39 posted on 02/11/2018 7:08:03 AM PST by Texan
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To: gibsonguy

Read the works I cited please. It is history, not some made up BS.

Remember there were hundreds of years between the first contact by the Portuguese and the beginning of the slave trade to the Americas.


40 posted on 02/11/2018 7:13:41 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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