Posted on 02/15/2018 12:40:43 PM PST by pabianice
Blackness invites speculation. The very idea of a global African diaspora creates the most fertile of grounds for a field of what-ifs. What if European enslavers and colonizers had never ventured into the African continent? More intriguing yet: What if African nations and peoples had successfully rebuffed generations of plunder and theft? What if the Zulu had won the wars against the Voortrekkers and the British, and a confederation of Bantu people had risen up and smashed Belgian rule? What if the Transatlantic children of the mother continent had been allowed to remain, building their empires with the bounties of the cradle of civilization?
These are the questions that vibrate beneath the vibranium bedrock of Marvels Black Panther, due out in theaters this week. The basic premise of a superpowered king fighting crime in a futuristic feline-themed suit is the kind of fresh-off-the-panel action absurdity that marks todays comic-book movies. But, on a deeper level, the fictional African nation of Wakanda is the same Atlantean archetype that has always haunted this diaspora. And like all variations on that archetypal story, Black Panther is a fantasy about black power.
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What if I could crap skittles ... that would be something.
Another liberal who HAS to butt-kiss anything black in order to prove that he/she/it/whatever is not racist.
The same person lives in an all white neighborhood.
Guaranteed.
If it is a comic book story then it must be true.
I will laugh forever even if it doesn't turn into a flop
What if any tribe in subsaharan Africa invented writing prior to the 7th Century A.D.?
What if any tribe in subsaharan Africa invented the wheel prior to the 7th Century A.D.??
What if frogs had wings?
They wouldn't bruise their butts...
“What if I could crap skittles ... that would be something.”
Eat skittles while sick with a rotovirus. Come right on through. You can even see the letters.
What if the South had won the Civil War and created an advanced technostate?
Wakanda wild side
Wakanda matter be?
Wakanda fool am I?
U B way woke.
Alright, alright, I was with you right up until that last totally preposterous comment about the Atlantic writing sane articles. That has never happened, never will.
They best be armed.
Certain subcultures don't do violence-free response to parody well...
You forgot using brightly-lit cell phones all over the place.
And enjoying the little maggot bastards kicking the back of your seat.
Savages...
And what if Eve had never eaten that apple?
So basically, what if black people denied immgration and built a wall?
As if no tribes ever went to war or enslaved...
Are you a unicorn?
#TasteTheRainbow
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