Posted on 03/11/2018 10:27:06 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Ta-Nehisi Coates was interested in taking on Marvel's Captain America in a new comic book series because of the character's idealism.
"He's like Barack Obama," Coates told a packed house during a Saturday afternoon keynote at the SXSW festival in Austin. "I want to clarify that. I don't mean that as praise or criticism. He's somebody who believes in the ideal of America, really, really believes in it."
The author announced the new comic endeavor on Feb. 28 via a column in The Atlantic, where he is a national correspondent. In the essay, he wrote that "what is exciting here is not some didactic act of putting my words in Captain America's head, but attempting to put Captain America's words in my head."
Coates, who has been a vocal critic of American politics, especially under President Trump's administration, explained further during SXSW why he wanted to tackle American idealism: "When you're writing comic books, you can't live in your place. You can't live in your world."
He added, to laughs, "I wrote Black Panther and I don't want to be king of Wakanda."
Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic and moderator of the discussion, asked Coates if since the release of the Black Panther movie, he has been approached by people who say, "Wakanda Forever!" Coates responded that a flight attendant recently did that to him. "It was great. I loved it," he said. "Anybody can do that anytime."
Coates began writing the Black Panther comics for Marvel in 2016. He has also penned a spinoff, Black Panther and the Crew, that ran for six years.
He spoke highly of Ryan Coogler's film adaptation, which just reached the $1 billion mark at the global box office, noting that it shows the "very beautiful and intense relationship between black people across the diaspora."
When asked about the politics of writing comics for Marvel, Coates said that enjoys the process of reading past comics to research a character. "You start with a story already in motion," he added. "I try to base it on what happened before. ... I love being part of some sort of bigger arc and bigger story. It's a lot of fun."
During Coates' panel, which focused on journalism during the Trump administration, the author of Between the World and Me and We Were Eight Years in Power fielded questions about the role of activism in journalism, his relationship with Obama and the state of the mainstream media today. He said he's "oddly optimistic" about how the media has been covering Trump. "I see a lot less hesitancy about Trump than I've seen in the past," he explained.
That is one seriously warped perspective
Uhhhhh.... Yeah, Obama the man who blames person after person.
I thought somebody else wrote the story of The Black Panther.
Maybe he lifted the story from an actual novel. That has often been the case. Meanwhile, he’ll take full credit.
I’m curious about the movie, but I have a feeling it’s one of those films where Blacks make themselves feel good by making Whites feel bad. I’m hoping to be wrong on that, seeing how influential and popular the film has become. I will find out before I spend the $14. (for the Matinee).
I heard that Marvel Comics made Captain America evil recently, so I wouldn’t be proud of the comparison.
Barack Obama hated America.
Captain America loves America. Captain America has a moral code; I never discerned such a thing in Obama.
It’s pretty much another superhero movie with loads of plot holes as usual. I mean, this wierd fruit juice does the same stuff as Captain America’s serum. Basically the serum isn’t unique anymore.
Obama hates America.
Hussein Obama, a Marxist Muslim pig with an evil streak a mile wide made into an evil hero. Nice.
Pure fantasy
This ta thing is a beneficiary of Black Privilege. It gets praise, fame, adulation, and money because it is Black. It is protected from the criticism that it deserves, due to its protective pigmentation.
It should shut up, and get a normal name, like “Shantavius.”
This racist assclown DID NOT write Black Panther. He wrote a handful of comic for that series, which were completely ignored for the film version.
One “minor” difference.
Captain America didn’t want to “fundamentally change” America.
Obama did, and he really, REALLY tried. Unfortunately, at some levels, he succeeded.
Remember, according to Obama, the Constitution is a document of “negative rights,” because it places limits on the government. The Founders placed those limits to protect the people FROM the government. Obama has it completely backwards, because the Constitution is a document of POSITIVE rights, in that it’s supposed to guarantee the “natural rights” of the people against governmental tyranny.
The Constitution makes it clear that PEOPLE have rights, and the government is supposed to be granted certain powers by the consent of the people. At least that’s the case when those in the government actually follow what is supposed to be the supreme law of the land. Obama and his leftist, “progressive” ilk find those protections to be impediments to their agenda.
Mark
This woman must have had a cheap Chinese knock-off brain installed instead of a real one. Her stupidity challenges the belief of just how stupid one could be. She should also have her eyes checked, because obviously she’s blind.
I liken Ta-Nehisi Coates to a pissant.
Don’t waste your money (and time).
Well, they are both cartoon characters who like to dress in spandex...
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