Marvel Misses Another Easy Opportunity for LGBTQ Representation With Black Panther

IO9 Gizmodo ^ | February 12, 2018 | Charles Pulliam-Moore

[publius911]

Hollywood is convincing a group that they aren’t good members of said group if they don’t see this movie....
Is this movie a biography? A historical piece? A documentary?
Nope, A complete work of fiction... and they have convinced a large pet of a group it’s something meaningful.

Sounds exactly like a thinly disguised repeat of ROOTS, for the benefit of the ignorant imbeciles who weren't alive yet for the the original fabrication.

Followed, of course, with Kunta Kinte with superpowers in Space...

[chesley]

I’m white, and I don’t think it would be right for me to see in at all, at least in the theater.

[Vince Ferrer]

The most advanced country on Earth, with super technology and highly skilled people — and yet they have done NOTHING to help the poor and downtrodden nations of Africa. It’s shocking.

I think that's the basic conflict of the movie. The bad guy wants to share the technology.

[Bob]

Oh, yeah — An advanced technological middle-African society is obviously the product of some leftist’s mental masturbation. If it weren’t for those evil, colonizing Europeans, imagine how advanced Africa would be today. /s

[LostInBayport]

Was this really a comic book that people read?

I did a quick search. It was canceled with its sixth issue.

In a country with over 320,000,000 people, Marvel celebrates if a book sells 100,000 copies. The social justice warrior editors and creators drove most of their audience away over the last ten years. I was one of the first out the door and I ain't goin' back ever. Lots of quality material from days gone by.

[Neoliberalnot]

The sex offenders have many allies but most Africans don’t subscribe. Diversity may possibly exclude the male butt rimmers.

[HamiltonJay]

Roots was fiction but it was at least something with a historical basis.. this is just purely sci-fi fantasy, and they are conning folks. Just like you aren’t a good person and a sexist if you don’t see the all female ghostbusters.

It’s depressing to watch people truly projecting onto this thing all sorts of meaning that just isn’t there.

If you want to celebrate a big budget movie with an all black cast, by all means do so, but hardly is this the first movie to have that.

As I said I can understand folks being excited for that, I truly can, but all the other insanity they are projecting on this, like it’s an I have a dream moment is just ignorant and disgusting.

[NorthMountain]

Good Lord, what a bunch of wretched, self-impressed, nonsensical blather and drivel. I only read the excerpt ... I ass-u-me that the rest of the article is the same worthless argle-bargle.

[moovova]

Thanks for the answers. I read comic books when they were available, but there wasn’t a lot of money back then...so I didn’t keep up with them in general. I enjoyed them enough back then to know the damage being done by the freaks nowadays.

[Simon Green]

If it weren’t for those evil, colonizing Europeans, imagine how advanced Africa would be today. /s

People are actually saying that with a straight face. No, really.

[hattend]

Maybe the studio wants to try to make some money.

[COBOL2Java]

Saw someone on twitter who is white, who said he was going to wait until at least the second week to see the movie, because it wouldn’t be right for him to see it on opening weekend.

Would the bruthas even let whitey in to the theater?